Social scientists have discussed a lot about what is community, but still the moot question is: who should define community? Should social scientists decide about it, or the people who are the part of some community should decide about what is community.

Geographical location, a particular place or a group of people are some common thoughts that occur in peoples’ mind when they think about community. When it’s about a geographical community, it can be a small tow, a suburb or even a small part of some suburb.

It is not so that only one community exists in some particular geographical location or town, but it’s also true that even more than one community can exist even in the same geographical location. Similarly, one community can involve in more than one rural areas or towns and they can link to one another.

It is not so that all communities are linked to some special geographical areas, as we often heard about some other communities that are also known as ethnic communities, for instance, Aboriginal Community, Vietnamese community, the legal community, the Christian community, the gay community etc.

What we can about a community? Is it a system, a thing or a name of a process? When community is referred as a system, it is called an interconnected set of parts that often act as a whole, and when it is referred as a process, it is referred as an observable action or operation.  Can community also be referred as a thing that exists apart from us or can it be referred a thing of which we are a part of?  Or is it something that we like to do together? Well, in short, it can be many things that we refer as community.

People often reckon blogs, wikis and forums as communities, but in actual they are just tools of community, not community itself.

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