 a group of people living in the same place or having a

particular characteristic in common.

 A community is a small or large social unit (a group of
living things) who have something in common, such as
norms, religion, values, or identity.
 Communities often share a sense of place that is
situated in a given geographical area (e.g. a country,
village, town, or neighbourhood)
 Community as shared political territory and
heritage
 Community as a network of interpersonal
ties based on common interest.
 Community as profound sharing of spiritual
and/or emotional connection
 Community as shared political territory and
heritage
- A traditional understanding of community
refers to a group of people living in the same
geographical area (either as a neighbourhood,
village, town or city) Where interpersonal ties
are locally bounded and are based on a shared
government and a common cultural and
historical heritage.
- This notion of community is applied to institutional
and grassroots perspective. Among the examples of
institution are educational, military, government
and health center, While the examples of grassroots
include people living in territorial enclaves (sittio)
villages, or barangays organized into groups called
people organization.
 Community as a network on interpersonal ties
based on common interest

- Another notion of community refers to a

network of interpersonal ties that are based
around a common interest. These ties, in turn,
provide mutual support, a sense of identity, and
sense of belongingness for the members.
 For example, one can refer to a sporting community, a
business community, or the lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transsexual (LGBT) Community, to name a few.

 A special type of community based on common interest that

is gaining popularity and increasing in membership today is
the virtual or online community, whose members are
popularity known as netizen.
 Community as profound sharing of spiritual
and/or emotional connection
- This understanding of community
pertains to a sense of spiritual and/or
emotional connection to other, or
communion with others on the basis
of a common problem.
- In other cases, such spiritual and/ or emotional
connection is based on epiphany that human
beings, and even all creation, are one since all came
from the same life matter (secular belief of
connectedness) or all are created by certain deity
(seeing each other as brothers and sisters in Jesus
Christ or Allah, or in some other cases, a belief in
pantheism)