Anthropology is concerned with the lives of people within different parts of the world, particularly in relation to the discourse of beliefs and practices. In addressing this question, ethnologists in ...
Dr. Mervin Verbit graduated from the University of Pennsylvania where he received his B.A. and M.A.. Verbit received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His dissertation studied the religious attitude ...
Homi K. Bhabha wrote about hybridity and third space from a postcolonial perspective in The Location of Culture (1994). In an interview, Bhabha explains how his conception of third space as "different ...
Grassroots movement procedures to organize and lobby include:Hosting house meetings or partiesHaving larger meetings—AGMsPutting up postersTalking with pedestrians on the street or walking door-to-do ...
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit organization based in New York dedicated to creating and sustaining public places that build communities. Planning and design rooted in the community for ...
The Island of O?ahu in Hawaii is often nicknamed (or translated as) "The Gathering Place". This makes sense because O?ahu is the most populated Hawaiian Island. In ancient times, however, O?ahu was ...
Oldenburg suggests that for a healthy existence, citizens must live in a balance of three realms: home life, the workplace, and the inclusively sociable places. Other cultures such as the French have ...
Oldenburg is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. He received his B.S., Mankato State University, 1954; M.A., University o ...
Community centres generally perform many (though rarely all) the following functions in its community (Note this list is intended to define which meaning of the phrase community centre is covered by t ...
In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós/-ē/-ón means "belonging, or pertaining, to a K?rios" ("Lord"), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything ...
The term "Western culture" is used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, and specific artifacts and technologi ...
Family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage), or co-residence/shared consumption (see Nurture kinship). In most societies it is the principal i ...
Ferdinand T?nnies was born into a wealthy farmer's family in North Frisia, Schleswig (today Nordfriesland, Schleswig-Holstein), then under Danish rule. He studied at the universities of Jena, Bonn, L ...
Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft dichotomyThe Gemeinschaft–Gesellschaft dichotomy was proposed by T?nnies as a purely conceptual tool rather than as an ideal type in the way it was used by Max Weber to ...
Communitas is an acute point of community. It takes community to the next level and allows the whole of the community to share a common experience, usually through a rite of passage. This brings every ...
