1. COMMUNITY
- A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO LIVES IN A LARGE
AREA WITH COMMON INTEREST SUCH AS
RELIGIONS VALUES OR IDENTITY

2. MURPHY AND CUNNINGHAM
•There are 3 interacting processes
inside the community that are
inseparable

3. •An underlying web of human
relationship called social fabric
•A unique community power
structure
•A set of resource flows that
constitute a local economy

4. THE NATURE OF
COMMUNITY
• A community is a sociological construct
• A community has a fuzzy bounderies
• A community can exist within a larger
community
• A community may move

5. THE 6 DIMENSIONS OF
COMMUNITY
• Technological
• Economic
• Political
• Institutional
• Aesthetic value
• Beliefs conceptual

6. TECHNOLOGICAL
“The technological dimension of community is its capital, its
tools and skills, and ways of dealing with the physical
environment. It is the interface between humanity and
nature.”

7. ECONOMIC
“Humans use to be productive, use to consumes and
distribute goods and commodities to build a better
community. “

8. POLITICAL
“The political dimension of community is its various ways
and means of allocating power, influence and decision
making.”

9. INSTITUTIONAL
“The social or institutional dimension of community is
composed of the ways people act, interact between each
other, react, and expect each other to act and interact. It
includes such institutions as marriage or friendship, roles
such as mother or police officer, status or class, and other
patterns of human behavior.”

10. AESTHETIC VALUE
“The aesthetic-value dimension of community is the
structure of ideas, sometimes paradoxical, inconsistent, or
contradictory, that people have about good and bad, about
beautiful and ugly, and about right and wrong, which are
the justifications that people cite to explain their actions.”

11. BELIEFS CONCEPTUAL
“The belief-conceptual dimension of community is another
structure of ideas, also sometimes contradictory, that
people have about the nature of the universe, the world
around them, their role in it, cause and effect, and the
nature of time, matter, and behavior.”

12. THE FOUR
APPROACHES IN
APPLYING THE TERM
COMMUNITY

13. SOCIOLOGIST AND GEOGRAPHERS
• Concerned about the social organizations
into small groups such as neighborhoods
small towns or other spatially bounded
localities

14. THOSE WORKING IN CULTURAL
STUDIES AND ANTHROPOLOGY
• Concerned with the belongingness
disregarding the identity in different
people or culture

15. THOSE WORKING IN SOCIAL
MOVEMENT
• Considers community as a form of political
mobilization inspired by radical
democracy that prompts communities of
action to oppose social injustice

16. THOSE PEOPLE CONCERNED ABOUT
THE INFLUENCE OF GLOBALIZATION
• Consider the development of a
community based on the rise of a global
society.