COMMUNITY
- Derived from Latin (Communitas) has
been used in English language
- Group of people living in the same place
or having particular characteristics
- Synonymous with belongingness
- For Bill lee community is something in
common
- For the Greeks means fellowship
- Boothroyd sees ‘’a human system for
more than two people
- Collection of people who have become
aware of some problem
- Sometimes described to an organization
or institution
Emile Durkheim and Max Webber
- Defined and shaped the concept of
community from scientific view
4 traditions
1. Complete community
- based in size from villages to
metropolises are analyzed holistically
- Holism cannot be broken down into
their parts and can’t be analyzed as
mere sums of the parts
2. Limited liability
- Focuses on neighborhood and similar
areas of larger communities
3. Society
- Examines various groups for whom
prestige or moral worth or both are in
some way important
4. Personal community
- Attention is directed to communes and
certain organizations which have a
sense of community.
3 types of community
1. Urban community
- Area with high population, availability
of basic requirements, good resources,
and lots of opportunities
- Has 2 conditions; social and physical
2. Rural area
- An open swat with few homes and
buildings
- Low population
- Agriculture
3. Suburban areas
- Lower density area that separates
residential and commercial areas from
one another
- Found near the city
MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTICS
OR ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITY
1. A group of people
- Most fundamental essential
characteristics or element of
community
2. A definite locality
- Group of people forms a community
only when they reside in a definite territory
3. Community Sentiment
- refers to a strong sense of awe feeling
among the members or a feeling of
belonging together
4. Naturality
- Naturally organized
5. Permanence
- Community always a permanent group
6. Similarity
- Similar in a number ways
7. Wider ends
- Associate not only for the fulfillment of
a particular ends but for a variety of ends
8. Total organized social life
- Community is marked by organized life
9. A particular name
- Every community has a particular name
by which it is known to the world
10. No legal status
- has no legal rights and duties in the
eyes of the law

Definitions terms
 Subdivision – an area of land has been
divided
 Social status – refers to the social
standing of an individual
 Slum – a squalid and overcrowded
urban streets
 Anthropogeny – study of human origins
 Sociology – the scientific study of
society