Community Studies

Community can be defined at any number of levels from an interest group to the European Community (of nations). Studying the various aspects of community and its dynamics takes people across the disciplines, primarily social science ones (though it need not be restricted to these), in order to examine either a specific community or communities in general from a variety of viewpoints. The materials assembled by people studying communities as a theme and now made available on the Internet can help enrich the research of people doing research from within a given discipline who find that the resource base there is much leaner.

There are sub-areas of community studies, the two most dominant of which are

There is a great deal of overlap in the content of these two sub-areas of study, so their resources are interchangeable to a great extent.

Further Resources

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