Community Flashcards
What does a communtiy mean?
A group of people with a shared identity, space, autonomy featuring interaction and collaboration
What is social-homogeneity?
Mutual interests between people
What is times relation to community?
Communities build over time, bonds form
What did the Chicago School of Ecology bring to the meaning of community?
The CSOE claimed that there was a correlation between plants, nature and humans in how cities were developed. The city model is based of this
What were some critiques of the Chicago School of Ecology?
The model didn’t fit other cities, humans are more advanced than plants
What did the critiques of the Chciago School of Ecology inspire?
More hands on research with people from communities
What are the limits of communties?
No longer territorial; online communities exist and are legitimate. This is called communites without propinquity.
What is the theory of communites being a romantic idea?
Communites are pushed for marketing and therefore, real community is formed. The community or the idea of one isn’t natural.
What is Slavoj Zizek’s theory on fantasy?
Fantasy is a fundemental human trait, it teaches us how to desire. Fantasy is supposed to be hard to obtain
How has the idea of community declined?
With the rise of online-use, you can be apart of many communties and can be more of an indiviual. Communites are becoming more societal or socail rather than place-based
