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Elements of Communities: Group of People Definite Locality

The essential elements of a community are: 1) A group of people who live in a definite locality and share common sentiments, customs, and traditions. 2) Community members feel a sense of belonging and share a common way of life. 3) Communities are relatively stable and have a natural growth with rules and institutions to regulate relations between members.

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Elements of Communities: Group of People Definite Locality

The essential elements of a community are: 1) A group of people who live in a definite locality and share common sentiments, customs, and traditions. 2) Community members feel a sense of belonging and share a common way of life. 3) Communities are relatively stable and have a natural growth with rules and institutions to regulate relations between members.

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ELEMENTS OF COMMUNITIES

The essential elements of community are described below:

​ Group of people:Community is a group of human beings. It is not possible to


form a community without a group of men and women.
​ Definite locality:A community always occupies a definite geographical area.
Locality is the physical .basis of community. Without a definite locality, social
relations between human beings cannot be established and the ‘we’ feeling
cannot evolve.
​ Community Sentiment:Community sentiment means a feeling of belonging
together. It is “we feeling” among the members. The members of a community
speak the same language, conform to the same mores, posses the same
sentiment, and have the same attitudes.
​ Like ness:The people in a community share a common way of life. Their customs,
traditions, mores, language etc. are similar.
​ Permanency:A community is not temporary like a crowd or a mob. It is relatively
stable. It includes a permanent life in a definite place.
​ Neutrality:Communities are not deliberately created. They are not made by
planned efforts. An individual is born in a community. It has a natural growth of
its own.
​ A particular Name:Every community has some particular name. In the words of
Lumley, “It points identity, it indicates reality, it points out individuality, it often
describes personality and each community is something of a personality “.
​ Size:A community may be big or small. A small community may be included in a
wider community. For example, a city and a village may be included in a district.
District may enclose small communities-like villages, towns, tribes etc.
​ Wider ends:People in community share several common interests. They
associate not for the fulfillment of a particular end. The ends of a community are
wider. People work together to fulfill some common interests.
​ Regulation of Relations:Every Community in course of time develops a system of
traditions, customs, and morals.Practices, some rules and regulations to regulate
the relations of its members. People in a community come together to meet the
primary needs through a common set of institutions and organisations.

DIVERSITY It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our
individual differences. These can be along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual
orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or
other ideologies.

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