Community Participation

The term ‘community’ has been used in various ways with a lot of arbitrariness. They use it to denote a group of people occupying a geographical area. But not all the social groups can be termed as ‘community’. When individuals live together in a common territory, have the feeling of mutuality, develop organized interaction among them, it is called the community spirit. The community is a social group characterized by the community spirit.

The examples are a village, a town, a city etc. The community, therefore, is an expression of the unity of common life of a group of people.

In other words, the life of members of a community is wholly lived in it and there is very little they need to share with outside.