THE TYPES OF COMMUNITIES

THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF COMMUNITIES

1. Rural-Urban

This classification is basically geographical in nature, Rural area are separate and away from the
influence of large cities and towns. It is known as the countryside, farmland, or agricultural land. Urban
areas on the other hand, are called cities or towns. To help clarify the difference between urban and
rural a Landmark (nd) gave the following questions: land

a. Where is it located?

b. Who lives there?

c. How many people live in it?

d. What is the land used for?

e. What are the services?

f. What jobs do people have?

g. How do they treat each other?

The following matrix presents the distinction between rural and u communities.

Questions

Where is it?

Rural

In a community away from the city with a lot of open space and natural areas

Urban

In a city with not much open space and natural areas

Who lives there?

Majority are poor people coming from the farming, fishing, and mining sectors who failed to finish
college education.

Many are educated, professionals, and businessmen. However, the is also a lot of urban poor a informal
settlers come from the labor sector

How many people live in it?

Low density of human population

High density of human population

What are the services?

Poor infrastructure facilities for electricity, water, transport, educational institutions, health,
employment, etc.

With the presence of infrastructure facility

What is the land used for?

Land is for agriculture/ farming

Land is for the buildings of government, educational institutions, corporations; business establishments
and factories, high-rise housing/ condominiums, infrastructure for transportation/roads, and
subdivisions.

What jobs do people have?

Farming, fishing, teaching, barangay health workers, etc.

Information technology. professionals (medicine, engineering, teaching, research), labor works, informal
street and community works; corporate works

How do people treat each other? What is their dynamics?

They have a sense of unity and belongingness. They also have less social mobility and social
differentiation.

In some parts of the urban community, sense of unity is far from that of the rural area. People are a bit
indifferent with each other, and there is a feeling of distrust. There is more social night life because of
the presence of bars, restaurants, and entertainments.

2. Local-Global

The local-global community refers to "spatialized networks of social relations." Global and local are "not
spatial structures but different representations of space competing against each other in a process to
determine the society of that society (Guy, 2009 as cited in Shanyana and Endofirepi, 2015)."

Guy (20029) further described global and local community as the two opposite sides of distinction. This
distinction is used in communication as a code to produce information about person and culture. The
challenge is to be cognizant regard local culture in the advent of social globalization. "Think global
realities the locally" presses people to consider the situation of the entire places and to take action
locally, in their own communities and cities.

3. Physical Space-Virtual Social Space

A social space is either physical or virtual like an online social media or a center or gathering place where
people interact. Physical space refers to unlimited three-dimensional expenses in which material objects
are located. On the other hand, virtual social space refers to nonphysical spaces created by the
development technology (Zahi Alrayyes, 2012).
With the development of online communication, the concept of community went beyond geographical
limitations. Now we have virtual community, a congregation of people communicating and interacting
with each other through information technology. KULANG POTA now gather virtually online and share
common interests irrespective physical location. Before the rise of the Internet, virtual communications
were limited by communication and transportation constraints.

THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMUNITIES

What are the different types of communities?

• Types of Communities

Neighborhood or Gog

ACQUISITION of Knowledge

Generally, there are three types of community: geographic community or neighborhood, community of
interest or solidarity, and intentional community. Pramila Aggarwal (nd) provided a description of each
type:

1. Geographic Community or Neighborhood

This type of community focuses on the physical boundaries that make it distinct or separate, such as a
river or a street. It has a diverse population with individuals or groups occupying different physical
spaces and each with special attributes such as religion, economic status, etc.

2. Community of Identity

This community has common identifiable characteristics or attributes like culture, language, music,
religion, customs, and others.

3. Community of Interest or Solidarity

This community incorporates social movements such as women's rights, environment, peace, and
human rights. Individuals may be connected to their community of interest at the local and international
levels. It may also be formal or informal or both.

4. Intentional Community

This community refers to individuals that come together volunteer and support each other. Members
may share the same interesting identity or geographical location.

Awareness and appreciation of the different types of communities’ researchers and agents of social
change to of a particular community. These guide them community matches their research interest
communitie focus and deepen their ang in identifying which pan or political advocacy. collaborate of
identity. However, collaborative tis into advocating peace issues, then he or she can agent community
community of interest or or forging of partnerships requires a lot of study and dialogue.

Is it possible to have all the types of communities present in t geographical community?

 Questions Rural Urban
Where is it? In a community away from In a city with not much open
the city with a lot of open space and natural areas
space and natural areas
Who lives there? Majority are poor people Many are educated,
coming from the farming, professionals, and
fishing, and mining sectors businessmen. However, there
who failed to finish college is also a lot of urban poor and
education. informal settlers coming from
the labor sector.
How many people live in it? Low density of human High density of human
population population
What are the services? Poor infrastructure facilities With the presence of
for electricity, water, infrastructure facility
transport, educational
institutions, health,
employment, etc.
What is the land used for? Land is for agriculture/ Land is for the buildings of
farming government, educational
institutions, corporations;
business establishments and
factories, high-rise housing/
condominiums, infrastructure
for transportation/roads, and
subdivisions.
What jobs do people have? Farming, fishing, teaching, Information technology.
barangay health workers, etc. professionals (medicine,
engineering, teaching,
research), labor works,
informal street and
community works; corporate
works
How do people treat each They have a sense of unity In some parts of the urban
other? What is their and belongingness. They also community, sense of unity is
dynamics? have less social mobility and far from that of the rural area.
social differentiation. People are a bit indifferent
with each other, and there is a
feeling of distrust. There is
more social night life because
of the presence of bars,
restaurants, and
entertainments.