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Community Development

Community is a broad term and thus can be defined in many different ways.
For example, Robert Park, one of the first American Sociologists to define the term
stated, ?The essential characteristics of a community, so conceived are those of: (1)
a population territorially organized, (2) more or less completely rooted in the soil it occupies, (3) its individual units living in a relationship of mutual interdependence?(Lyons, p. 5). In contrast to this, Minar and Greer defined a community so that it may include a large corporation, Kuhn said that a community may be an informal professional group such as the ?scientific community?, and Nisbet stated that a even a philosophical and psychological commitment to communal lifestyles could be considered community (Lyons 1999). While all of these may be acceptable definitions of community to one person, some or all may be completely unacceptable to someone else. In my studying of community, I would define it similarly with Park. Community...

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