Community
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In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting organisms sharing an environment. The word community is derived from the Latin communitas (meaning the same), which is in turn derived from communis, which means "common, public, shared by all or many". Communis comes from a combination of the Latin prefix com- (which means "together") and the word munis (which has to do with performing services).
In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness. Traditionally in sociology, a "community" has been defined as a group of interacting people living in a common location. However, the definition of the word "community" has evolved to mean individuals who share characteristics, regardless of their location or degree of interaction. See also community of interest.
See also
- Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- Communitarianism
- Sense of community
- Historian Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities
- Intentional community
- International community
- Nationalism and Internationalism
- Otherness
- Original affluent society hunter-gatherer aspects of Marshall Sahlins (1966)
- Philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy's the Inoperative Community (1983)
- Phalanstère
- Tragedy of the commons and Tragedy of the anticommons
