What Is Community?

There are many ways to define and describe a community. Based on your personal experience, describe a community in which you engage. How does that compare with the ideas from the required readings or other literature?

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The above description compares with other definitions of community. According to Wang et al. (2018), a community in the topology of networks is a subgroup of a graph with more than two nodes connected by links from both directions. This definition differs from my description in that the elements must be linked to each other from both directions. However, the definitions share the feature that a community must consist of two or more items.  Jull, Giles, and Graham (2017) mention that a community from a health perspective contains the locus, social ties, common interest, and joint action elements. This means a community is something that could be traced using boundaries. People in a community have social ties through family, friends, or acquaintances and share a common interest such as norms.

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