SOC356Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mp3 Player, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Other types of definitions: geographical in the old days they thought about villages, family members living close to each other. Location is key figure distinguishing community members from others: conceptual ideational conceptualization, common interests, ideas or values. You do not need to know everyone, organizing community for the same target. Not necessarily friends: relational common bonds between members. Everyone knows each other, example: smaller groups if students having fun. No specific target but everyone wants to maintain relationships. There are efforts to make online communities of each type. Newmarket government wanted to provide residents with free high speed internet to build community worked well. Geographical community online - condo builders develop apps to communicate with each other. Conceptual community online freedom of expression, pirate bay is somewhat of a community. Founders started it so people had right to access information, against concept of intellectual property. Organized a party in sweden to abandon concept of intellectual properly.
