Community Concepts, Movements and Schools of Thought
- Affinity (sociology) – in terms of sociology, refers to "kinship of spirit", interest and other interpersonal commonalities
- Cenobitic – monastic tradition that stresses community life as opposed to eremitic (like a hermit).
- Collective – group of people who share common interests, working together to achieve a common objective
- Collectivism – school of thought, antithetical to Individualism, in which the collective takes precedence over the individual
- Communitarianism – group of related but distinct philosophies advocating phenomena such as civil society
- Communitas – Latin noun for the spirit of community having significance in cultural anthropology and the social sciences.
- Community politics – movement in British politics to re-engage people with political action on a local level
- Community television – television stations that are owned and operated by communities rather than governments or corporations
- Consanguinity – quality of being descended from the same ancestor as another person
- Consensus decision-making – inclusive decision-making processes that accommodate even the minority
- Emergence – complex pattern formation from simpler rules
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft – terms introduced by German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies to distinguish community from society
- Group (sociology) – collection of people who share characteristics, interact and have a common identity
- Group dynamics – field of study within the social sciences that focuses on the nature of groups
- Imagined communities – concept that nations are socially constructed by the imaginations of people
- Internationalism (politics) – political movement which advocates cooperation between nations for the benefit of all
- Interpersonal relationship – connection, affiliation or association between two or more people
- Liminality – period of transition related to initiation, rite of passage or other entry into a group
- Meeting – two or more people coming together to have discussions or produce a predetermined output, often in a formalized way
- Meritocracy – form of government based on rule by ability (merit) rather than by wealth or other determinants of social position.
- Organization – formal group of people with one or more shared goals
- Organizational learning – area of knowledge that looks at how an organization learns and adapts
- Plenary session – part of a meeting when all members of all parties are in attendance
- Scientific Community Metaphor – approach in computer science to understanding and performing scientific communities
- Sense of community – look from the psychological perspective at how and why communities form and why people join them
- Small-group communication – communication in a context that mixes interpersonal communication interactions with social clustering
- Social capital – concept with a variety of inter-related definitions, based on the economic value of social networks
- Socialization – process by which people learn to adopt the behavior patterns of the community in which they live
- Solidarity (sociology) – feeling or condition of unity based on common goals, interests, and sympathies among a group's members
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