What is a community?

A community is defined as an administrative area within a fixed geographic area where members of society live in a residential environment, perform social functions, and create social norms.

The World Health Organization (WHO) assembled experts in community health nursing in 1974*** to define community as applicable to the role of community health: "A community is a social grouping within a fixed geographic area, whose members share **** interests, know each other and interact with each other, and who perform social functions, create social norms, and form a distinctive value system and social welfare. value system and social welfare. Each member is integrated into the larger community through family, immediate neighborhood, and community." From this, we can see that the four elements of community formation include People: Communities are made up of people. Regardless of the type of community, it is through the gathering and interaction of people that the needs of each other can be met. However, there is no definite conclusion as to how many people can form a community. If the community is too large and the number of people is too great, it will be difficult for them to interact with each other; but if the number of people is too small, it will be impossible for them to form a group with mutual benefits and life support. 2. Local or geographic boundaries: Defining the size of a community in terms of its geographic extent is the most acceptable definition of a community. However, not all communities have clear geographical boundaries. If the boundaries of the area is not appropriate, it will cause some difficulties in the collection of community information. 3. Social Interaction: Residents of a community interact with each other due to the necessities of life, especially interdependence and competition. For example, residents of the community's food, clothing, housing, transportation, education, and entertainment need to be completed with others *** with. As a result, related economic, transportation, and recreational systems are formed. The community through the different social systems to play a function, to meet the needs of residents, the establishment of community norms. 4. Community Identity: Community residents are accustomed to communicating with residents of other communities in the name of the community and interacting within their own community. At the same time, community residents to form a community defense system, the residents produce a clear "sense of belonging" and "community complex".

Community usually refers to a social group based on a certain geographical area. It includes at least the following characteristics: a certain geographical area, a certain number of people, residents have **** the same consciousness and interests, and have closer social interaction. For example, villages, small towns, street neighborhoods, urban or suburban areas of cities, metropolitan areas, etc., are communities of varying sizes. A community is a local social or territorial group. Communities are different from general social groups, which are not usually characterized by a certain geographical area.

Etymology

The word "community" is the German word gemeinschaft, which originated from the German sociologist F. Tennessee's book Community and Society (also known as Ritual and Juridical Society), published in 1887. According to Tennessee, a community is a social union based on kinship ties. In this social union, the emotional, natural will prevails, and the individual or personal will is suppressed by the emotional, ****same will. Accordingly, he called the union formed by the contractual relations of people and by the "rational" will "community". And the English word community contains communion, group, society, public, and *** same body, *** same sex and so on a variety of meanings. Therefore, some sociologists sometimes use the word community in the sense of a group or a non-territorial ****same body. The Chinese term "community" was translated from English by Chinese sociologists in the 1930s, and because it is associated with a region, community has taken on a territorial meaning, which is intended to emphasize that the life of such a social group is established within a certain geographical area. This term has been used until now.

Due to the differences in the research perspectives of sociologists, there is no uniform definition of the concept of community in sociology. However, many scholars believe that the concept of community is based on the premise of a certain geographic area. 1955 American scholar G.A. Hilary made a comparative study of 94 existing expressions on the definition of community. He found that 69 of these definitions included the three meanings of geography, ****same ties and social interaction, and considered these three to be essential ****same elements that constitute a community. Therefore, one can at least grasp the concept of community from the combination of geographic elements (region), economic elements (economic life), social elements (social interaction), and psychosocial elements (sense of identity and the same values in the bonds of ****), i.e., the community is considered to be a social group living in the same geographic area with a sense of **** and **** the same interests.