Outline of community

Human geography – who people are and where they live

• European Community – founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome
• Community council – tier of local government in Wales and Scotland
• Autonomous communities of Spain – Spain's fifty provinces are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities
• Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium –
• Local community – town, city, neighborhood, rural area, or any locale and everyone in it
• Unincorporated community – geographic area having a common social identity
• Residential community – small town or city, composed mostly of residents
• Intentional Community – planned residential community, usually of people that share personal and cultural values.
  • Cohousing – intentional community composed of private homes centered around a common house and other common facilities.
  • Ecovillage – intentional community formed with social, economic, and ecological sustainability as its goal.
  • Commune (intentional community) – intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property (as opposed to communities that only share housing)
  • Monastery – community of monks practicing a religious discipline
  • Convent – community of clergy particularly in the Roman Catholic Church and, to a lesser degree, in the Anglican Church
  • World Brotherhood Colonies – idea for spiritual based intentional communities based on shared spiritual principles, begun by Paramahansa Yogananda

• World community – global aspects of community from the perspective of governance and the humanities
• International community – global aspects of community from the perspective of governance and the humanities
• Global village – global aspects of community from the perspective of telecommunications

• Business community – total body of business people its relationships and interactions
• Religious community – total body of religious people its relationships and interactions
• Scientific community – total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions
• Epistemic community – those who accept one version of a story
• Discourse Community – users of a particular style of language
• Moral community – group of people drawn together by a common interest in living according to a particular moral philosophy
• Voluntary association – group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose
• Cooperative – group of persons who join together (co-operate) to carry on an economic activity of mutual benefit

Community of...

• Action – group of people organized to support a cause or bring about social change
• Circumstance – group of people bound together because of circumstances usually beyond their control
• Interest – group of people who share a common interest or passion
• Place – group of people bound together because of where they spend a continuous portion of their time
• Position – group of people who share a particular station in life (such as teenage years, marriage, parenthood, etc.)
• Practice – group of people who choose to collaborate over an extended period to share ideas, find solutions, and build innovations.
• Purpose – group of people who are going through the same process or are trying to achieve a similar objective

see Group (sociology)

• Housing cooperative – legal entity that owns real estate, usually one or more residential buildings
• Retailers' cooperative – network of retailers which employs economies of scale to get discounts from manufacturers and to pool marketing
• Consumers' cooperative – cooperative which employs economies of scale to get discounts from distributors
• Utility cooperative – public utility such as electric, water or telecommunications owned by its members
• Worker cooperative – business entity owned in part or exclusively by its workers

• Affinity group – small group of activists (usually from 3-20) who work together on direct action
• Intentional community – planned residential community with a much higher degree of social interaction than other communities
• Learning community – cohort-based, interdisciplinary approach to higher education covering distinct fields of study
• Virtual community – See Virtual community section below
• Web community –

• Craigslist – centralized network of urban online communities, featuring free classified advertisements (with jobs, housing, personals, for sale/barter/wanted, services, community, gigs and resumes categories) and forums sorted by various topics

• Community studies – academic discipline, drawing on sociology and anthropology with emphasis on ethnography (participant observation)
• Community psychology – use of the principles of psychology to understand how communities work (or fail to work)
• Computational sociology – recently developed branch of sociology that uses computation to analyze social phenomena
• Cultural anthropology – field of anthropology comprising the holistic study of humanity
• Internet studies – emerging field of academia dealing with the interaction between the Internet and modern society
• Organizational Development – branch of Sociology that deals with how and why people organize themselves
• Philosophy of social science – scholarly elucidation and debate of accounts of the nature of the social sciences
• Rural sociology – field of sociology associated with the study of life in small towns and the country.
• Social geography – how society affects geographical features and how environmental factors affect society.
• Social philosophy – philosophical study of interesting questions about social behavior (typically, of humans).
• Social sciences – groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world using scientific methods
• Sociocultural evolution – theories of cultural evolution and social evolution – describing how cultures and societies have developed over time
• Urban planning – discipline which deals with the development of metropolitan areas, municipalities and neighbourhoods

Community development – efforts to improve communities:

• Community organizing – process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest
• Community building – the more informal (or intangible) aspects of community development; the establishment, broadening and deepening of links between community members
• Community economic development – efforts to improve the material aspects of local communities
• Community development planning – Public participatory and usually interactive town or neighborhood planning and design
• Community practice – type of social work practice that focuses on community level interventions
• Community service – service (voluntary or compulsory) that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community

Virtual community Virtual community – group of people communicating with each other by means of information technologies:

• Bulletin board system –
• Chat room – online site in which people can chat online (talk by broadcasting messages to people on the same site in real time)
• Computer-mediated communication –
• Discourse community –
• Electronic mailing list – special usage of e-mail that allows for widespread distribution of information to many Internet users
• Internet activism –
• Internet forum –
• Internet social network –
• Massively distributed collaboration –
• Motivations for Contributing to Online Communities –
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
• Network of practice –
• Online deliberation –
• Social network –
• Social evolutionary computation –
• The Virtual Community –
• Usenet – distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network of the same name
• Virtual Community of Practice –
• Virtual Ethnography –
• Virtual reality –
• Web community –
• Web of trust –
• Wireless community projects – development of interlinked computer networks
• World Wide Web – global, read-write information space

See also Category:Virtual reality communities

• Global Ecovillage Network – global association of people and communities (ecovillages) dedicated to living "sustainable plus" lives
• Communication – process of sending information to oneself or another entity – usually via a language
• Gathering place – phenomenal natural location crucial to culture and civilization
• Community Boards – community-based mediation program, established in 1976, in San Francisco, California – USA
• Community garden – small plots of land allocated to groups of people by some organization for collective gardening
• WELL – (Whole Earth Lectronic Link or The WELL) - one of the oldest virtual communities still online.
• The Farm (Tennessee) – spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee – known informally as a hippie commune