L2: DEFINING COMMUNITY

Question 1

The word community considered as a Late Middle English term is derived from the latin word?

Answer 1

communitas

Question 2

What is the meaning of communitas?

Answer 2

Fellowship

Question 3

“Munire” translates to?

Answer 3

to strengthen, to fortify,or to defend

Question 4

True or False. A social science perspective toward understanding communities is premised on the social dimension of individual life.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

He conceptualize the ideal (political) community, referred to as the polis (city-state)

Answer 5

Plato

Question 6

He emphasized the role of political institutions in maintaining and sustaining order within a community

Answer 6

Aristotle

Question 7

In this perspective community is characterized in terms of common interests between people, common ecology and locality, and common social system or structure

Answer 7

Anthropology

Question 8

In this perspective people in the community can lived through the negotiation of social representations and as a consequence.

Answer 8

Social Psychology

Question 9

In this perspective community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristics in common such as norms, religion, values, and identity

Answer 9

Sociology

Question 10

Arise from voluntary shared agreements among individuals that generally also shape their behavior as a collective.

Answer 10

Social Institutions

Question 11

Established rules that ensure the regular and predictable behaviour of actors within a community

Answer 11

Institutions

Question 12

He describes institutions as the “rules of the game”

Answer 12

Nobel Laureate Douglass North

Question 13

He suggested that institutions both constrain and enable behavior.

Answer 13

Geoffrey Hodgson

Question 14

Explicitly communicated, embodied in legally codified documents or artifacts.

Answer 14

Formal Institutions

Question 15

Are practices, norms, traditions, culture, conduct, and belief systems of a community.

Answer 15

Informal Institutions

Question 16

Refers to the ideal standards.

Answer 16

Normative

Question 17

Refers to a political community of organized groups

Answer 17

Civil Society

Question 18

Examples of Civil Society Organizations

Answer 18

NGOs & POs

Question 19

A form of collective behavior

Answer 19

Social Movement

Question 20

Based on planned strategies and tactics

Answer 20

Mass action

Question 21

Refers to local or grassroots groups within a particular locale

Answer 21

Organic Perspective