Community means, a group of people living together, sharing common interest, having sense ofbelongingness. Community life depends upon some kinds of face to face communication/interaction among the members.
Elements of Community:
- A group of people
- Specific locality
- Community sentiments
- Natural
- Likeness
- Wider ends
- Particular name
- No legal status
- Size
Types of Community:
- Rural Community
- Urban Community
1. Rural Community:Rural Community means a group of rural people, having belongingness, sharing their emotions living in a specific locality within a village.
Rural Community is consists of rural people who are generally depends on agriculture.
Rural Community is consists of rural people who are generally depends on agriculture.
Objectives of Rural Community:
- To improve the living standards by providing food, shelter, clothing, employment and education
- To increase productivity in Rural areas and reduce poverty
- To involve people in planning and development through decentralization of administration
- To ensure distributive justice and equalization of opportunities in the society
Characteristics of Rural Community:
- Rural Community is mainly depends on agriculture
- Rural communities are relatively more homogeneous
- Relationships are not means to end type
- It have their own culture and tradition
- There have limited jobs
- Depends on internal/natural resources
- Rural Community is regulated by village Panch
2. Urban Community:Urban Community means a group of people, having belongingness, sharing their emotion, live in a particular area in city.
Objectives of Urban Community:
- To improve adequate support service to the slum dwellers
- To reduce the ecological breakdown
- To organize family welfare programmes to control population growth
- To make plans for reduction of chronic diseases as HIV/AIDS, TB and Laprosy etc.
Characteristics of Urban Community:
- Large in size
- High density of population
- Diversification of occupation
- It have larger area for interaction
- Relationships are means to end types
- Migration of people from rural area
- Development of Slums
- Faster growth of population
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