The Nature of Community Robert L. Warren* The idea of the American community is deceptively simple‚ as long as one does not require a rigid definition. The term evokes a rich imagery associated with the "country village‚" the "small town‚" or the "big city" of an earlier day. One thinks of the country village’s Main Street‚ with its several stores and post office‚ and the streets‚ houses‚ and lawns that immediately surround it in the setting of an enveloping prairie‚ dairy-farm country‚ or forest
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The definition of community has been debated by sociologists for generations. Bell and Newby 1971 described how the term community has 98 different definitions.( (The concept of‚ 2011). There are different factors that define what a community is. A community could be people living in the same area‚ people who have similar lives‚ people who share the same things or a group of people having the same race‚ religion‚ or other particular characteristic in common. Though today there is also a so called
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NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY ASSIGNMENT The purpose of this assignment is to have you examine your neighborhood and to consider how your community is similar or different than urban Black communities. This will be an opportunity for you to critically examine your neighborhood‚ and to examine the values of your community and see how they compare and contrast with other areas where people reside in New York City. This assignment will be completed in two phases. The first phase involves your investigation
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one’s community‚ it helps to understand what a community is and why they form. There are basically two parts to the definition of community. The first part of the definition states that a community is “A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government.” The second part of the definition describes a community as “A group of people having common interests. To me‚ this means that along with the two definitions‚ there are mainly two different reasons for which communities form
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Cyberspace Community Most people view a community as the people that surround them daily and live in the same area as them. However‚ others may see a different aspect of the meaning. The definition of a community is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality‚ share the same government and often have a common cultural and historical heritage (dictionary.com). Although this may be an accurate definition‚ it varies from other peoples ideals. To some a community can be found
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contribute to the development of a civic-minded society but should contribute too. There are many ways that teenagers can contribute to the development of a civic-minded society. Firstly‚ teenagers today are in greater contact with the larger community than any preceeding generation. This enables them to be key prospects of fostering a common identity with others‚ which is the basis for compassion and acting the best interests of others. With exchange programs‚ online interactions and an increasingly
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Community‚ a seemingly nondescript comedy about six misfits muddling their way through community college‚ finding each other in a Spanish study group. On its surface‚ it borrows a lot from recent classics. Lead Joel McHale is another comic anti-hero‚ selfish‚ vain yet charming and unfailingly hot. Like The Simpsons‚ it’s chock full of details for ber fans to obsess over‚ replete with endless pop-culture references. Chevy Chase is the show’s only famous actor‚ and even that is a kind of meta joke
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SOWK 543- Fall 2012 Assignment #1: Community Immersion Joseph Gossner 9/25/12 Stephanie Carter Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to compare and contrast two smaller sub-communities that are encompassed by the larger community of Santa Maria‚ California. This paper will promote the beliefs and theories of modern Social Workers‚ and address the resources and needs of the two communities in question. The compilation of this paper was derived from research that was conducted
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Community Oriented Policing In spite of the fact that the United States still exceeds many other industrialized nations in overall crime and violent crime‚ it has been effective in decreasing its crime rate‚ particularly during the 1990s. While some coalitions have attributed this positive development to changes in socio-demographic trends and rigid enforcement approaches‚ one coalition highlights the success of the community-oriented policing and problem-oriented policing in eradicating the root
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Research Method Paper A Community Needs Assessment Research is conducted in a variety of different ways using different methods and methodologies. How these methods are used is imperative to how clear and accurate research will be. Community needs assessment is a research method used by many researchers that assists in finding gaps within a particular target group within a particular community. Throughout this paper I will discuss what a community needs assessment is and when and how it is
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