L2: DEFINING COMMUNITY Flashcards
The word community considered as a Late Middle English term is derived from the latin word?
communitas
What is the meaning of communitas?
Fellowship
“Munire” translates to?
to strengthen, to fortify,or to defend
True or False. A social science perspective toward understanding communities is premised on the social dimension of individual life.
True
He conceptualize the ideal (political) community, referred to as the polis (city-state)
Plato
He emphasized the role of political institutions in maintaining and sustaining order within a community
Aristotle
In this perspective community is characterized in terms of common interests between people, common ecology and locality, and common social system or structure
Anthropology
In this perspective people in the community can lived through the negotiation of social representations and as a consequence.
Social Psychology
In this perspective community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristics in common such as norms, religion, values, and identity
Sociology
Arise from voluntary shared agreements among individuals that generally also shape their behavior as a collective.
Social Institutions
Established rules that ensure the regular and predictable behaviour of actors within a community
Institutions
He describes institutions as the “rules of the game”
Nobel Laureate Douglass North
He suggested that institutions both constrain and enable behavior.
Geoffrey Hodgson
Explicitly communicated, embodied in legally codified documents or artifacts.
Formal Institutions
Are practices, norms, traditions, culture, conduct, and belief systems of a community.
Informal Institutions
