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What is the origin of the word "community"?
What is the origin of the word "community"?
- It comes from the Latin word for fellowship.
- It comes from the Latin word for organized society.
- It comes from the Greek word for social interaction.
- It comes from the Latin words for together and gift. (correct)
How do sociologists define community?
How do sociologists define community?
- As a group of people with shared feelings, behaviors, and lifestyle
- As a group of interacting people living in a common location.
- There is no consensus among sociologists. (correct)
- As a group organized around common values.
What does community involve?
What does community involve?
- Living alone
- Giving among each other. (correct)
- Being antisocial.
- Ignoring others.
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Study Notes
- Community refers to a group of people with shared feelings, behaviors, and lifestyle.
- Humans are social creatures and live their lives in the company of others.
- Sociologists have not reached a consensus on the definition of community.
- Traditionally, a community is a group of interacting people living in a common location.
- The word community is often used to refer to a group organized around common values.
- The word can also refer to national or global communities.
- Community comes from the Latin word communitas, which means fellowship or organized society.
- The word community is derived from the Latin words cum and munus, which mean together and gift, respectively.
- The term community has had 94 discrete definitions by the mid-1950s.
- Community is about giving among each other.
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