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Community

A community is a social unit (a group of people) with one or more shared socially-significant characteristics, being place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country, village, town, or neighborhood) or in virtual space through communication…

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Development

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Internet communities

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Community

Nodes149
Edges148
Triples302
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013423
Components1

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Community

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related to References · 171
Community → Abstract Community, Against, Agamben, Albany, Alphonso, American, An Introduction, Ann Arbor, Architecture, Archived, Barrytown, Barzilai, Bauman, Beck, Bird, Blanchot, Bloomington, Book, Boston, Bowling Alone
related to Philosophy · 24
Community → Alphonso Lingis’ The Community, Anglo-American, Being Singular Plural, Classical Social Theory, Common, Communitarianism, European, European Community, Giorgio Agamben’s The Coming, Greg Bird’s Containing Community, However, In, Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable, Miranda Joseph’s Against, Other, Roberto Esposito’s Communitas, Romance, The Disavowed Community, The Inoperative Community
related to Development · 22
Community → Chicago, Citizenship, Community Development Journal, Formal, Harvard Kennedy School, In, More, National Opinion Research Center, New York State, NGOs, Oxford, Public, Public Affairs, Saguaro Seminar, Syracuse University, The General Social Survey, The Maxwell School, These, United Kingdom, United States
related to Building and organizing · 14
Community → Chaos, Community-Making, Deep, Emptiness, He, In The Different Drum, Moves, Peace, Peck, People, Pseudocommunity, Scott Peck, True, When
related to Internet communities · 10
Community → An, Arizona, Despite, In, Pew Internet, Relationships, Sheri Bauman, The American Life Project, University, What
related to Archaeology · 8
Community → Archaeological, Archaeologists, In, Most, Social, The, Therefore, This
related to Sociology · 8
Community → At, Atlanta, Early, Floyd Hunter, Politicians, Robert Dahl, Such, Who Governs
related to Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft · 7
Community → Ferdinand Tönnies, Gemeinschaft, German, Gesellschaft, In Gemeinschaft, No, Tönnies
related to Types · 7
Community → Identity-based, Intentional, Location-based, One, Organizationally-based, These, They
related to Ecology · 6
Community → Competition, In, It, Mutualism, Predation, Species

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communities social sense building people university one development press may common identity types socialization groups virtual place also new based

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Communityis asocial unit0.90text
Communityis agroup of people living near one another who interact socially0.90text
Communityis aassemblage of populations0.90text
familyinstance ofand roles in social institutions0.80text
homeinstance ofand roles in social institutions0.80text
workinstance ofand roles in social institutions0.80text
governmentinstance ofand roles in social institutions0.80text
societyinstance ofand roles in social institutions0.80text
or humanity at largeinstance ofand roles in social institutions0.80text
national communitiesinstance ofmay also refer to large-group affiliations0.80text
international communitiesinstance ofmay also refer to large-group affiliations0.80text
and virtual communities.In terms of sociological categoriesinstance ofmay also refer to large-group affiliations0.80text

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