Types of Communities

and Its Differences

 TYPES OF COMMUNITIES
 1. Formal communities
 2. Informal Communities
 3. Urban communities
 4. Rural Communities
 5. Global communities
 6. Sectoral communities
 7. Social Space
communities
 Different Types of
Communities

I. Formal Community
A formal group is formed when
people come together to accomplish
specific goals and objectives. An
official group has particular
structures and roles where
responsibilities of members of the
Characteristics of Formal
Groups
The formal group is
characterized in engaging joint
activities and discussion,
helping each other, and sharing
information with each other.
Moreover, they care about their
standing with each other.
Examples of formal
communities
- Academic
- Recreation
- Retirement
 INFORMAL COMMUNITY
 An informal group is formed
when two or more people
come together to accomplish
a specific task which is
mainly socially geared. The
main idea behind the
establishment of the informal
group is the satisfaction of
both personal and
psychological needs.
Characteristics of
Informal Groups

It consists of a set of

personal relations, social
networks, common interest
and emotional sources of
motivation.
 Examples of informal
communities

Ecovillages
Co-ops communities
Religious
communities
 URBAN COMMUNITY

The term urban simply

refers to the region or area
which is densely populated
and possess the
characteristics of the man-
made surroundings.
There are many advantages of life in
urban areas like easy access to various
amenities, better transportation
facilities, entertainment and education
options, health facilities. Although it
suffers certain drawbacks like
pollution, caused due to large scale
industrialization and means of
transportation like buses, trains, cars
and so on, leading to increasing in
health problems in the people living in
that area.
 Physical condition- refers to
the development
of physical fitness through the
adaptation of the body and its
various systems to an exercise
program.
 Social condition- refers to the
sociological process of training
individuals in a society to
respond in a manner generally
approved by the society in
 Characteristics of Urban Communities:

 Advancement in science and technology
 Many business establishments,
recreational centers, educational and
religious institutions
 People are crowded
 Social heterogeneity
 Class extremes
 Geater pollution
 Many crimes are committed
 Family ties tend to be weak
 Limited space
 Greater impersonality among
neighbors
 Higher standard of living
 Shortage of employment
 Informal settlers are rampant
 A lot of hazards and dangers
 Greater number of separation of
spouses and live-in arrangements
 Major occupations are industrial,
administrative and professional
 Divisions of labor and occupational
specialization are very much common
 RURAL COMMUNITY

 refers to a small
settlement, which is
outside the boundaries of
a city, commercial or
industrial area.
 RURAL COMMUNITY

 rural area is an open swath

of land that has few homes
or other buildings, and
 not very many people. A
rural area’s population
density is very low.
Characteristics of the Rural
Community:

 
  Deep, long-term
relationships
  Generally, peace and order
exists
  Mutual give and take affairs
  Emphasis of shared values
  Wider area
 Influence of blood relationships in
decidsion making
 Homogeneous typa of culture
 Belief in supernatural and superstitious
beliefs
 Relationship is more personal and
informal
 Less pollution
 Few establishments and institutions
 Few goods and services
 GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Global community are the people
or nations of the world, considered as
being by modern telecommunications
and as being economically, socially,
and politically interdependent.
 Characteristics of Global
Communities
 World community
 Common point of view toward
issues of human rights, global
warming and
climate change, peace and order,
socio-economic conditions as well
as
disputed issues such as teretorial
conflict
SECTORAL COMMUNITY
 Community sectors can mean a
number of different things. In some
cases, it
describes broad categories – the public
and private sectors, for example,
referring
respectively to those individuals and
organizations that have to do with
government
in some way and those that don’t.
Sometimes, the term “community
sector” means
 Different Sectors

Health. This includes medical and mental

health professionals (doctors, nurses, psychologists and
psychotherapists, physical
therapists, etc.), pharmacists and pharmacies, hospitals
and other in-patient facilities, clinics, non-traditional
health practitioners
(acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage
therapists, etc.), and public health agencies
and systems.
 Education. Public and private K-12 schools,
public and private pre-schools, public and
private colleges and universities, school
committees, school administrators, teachers,
other educational institution employees,
parents, students, state boards of education,
etc.This sector may (or may not, depending
on the issue) include adult basic education
(ABE) and English as Second or Other
Language (ESOL) programs.
 Law Enforcement.
The local and state police, the court
system – judges, probation
officers, prosecutors, court-
appointed defense lawyers, court-
mandated programs for
offenders, etc.
 Government.
Regional, provincial, state,
local, and tribal government
bureaucracies, agencies, and
officials, both elected and
appointed.
 Business.
This sector can range from
the self-employed carpenter or
mom- and-pop grocery store to the
multinational corporation with a
local
facility.
 Youth
Youth themselves (in the U.S.,
generally viewed as ages 18 and
younger) and
those who work directly with them
(youth
violence prevention and outreach
programs, Big Brother/Big Sister,
Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs, scouting,
etc.) There may be overlap here
  Parents
Whether parents are viewed as a
community sector or not may depend on
the
nature of the issue of concern. They’re
certainly
a sector in the case of community-wide
efforts
that benefit or otherwise affect children,
but they may not be seen as a separate
group
 The media
The media now includes not
only
newspapers and magazines,
radio, and TV, but the vast
array of blogs, videos,online
news, and other material
available on the Internet.
 Human Services
This sector generally includes non-profit
professional and volunteer organizations
that provide free or affordable services
such as job training, food, shelter,elder
services , ABE/ESOL, services for
individuals with physical or mental
disabilities,support and advocacy for
immigrants, etc.
 Religion
Places of worship and their
members and
religious organizations (e.g.,
Knights of Columbus, B’nai Brith) of
all faiths. If the community is a
large city, this sector may
include the hierarchy of a national
church
as well (a Roman Catholic
 Service/Fraternal
Organizations

The Lions, Masons, Rotary,

Kiwanis, and other local
and
national or international
service
organizations.
 Community Activist and Volunteer
Groups
These might be aimed at political issues
(engaged in advocacy for or against a
particular
action of government), supportive of
existing
institutions (“Friends of” the local park, a
school
playground volunteer corps), oriented
toward economics (SCORE – Service
 Culture
The arts community comprises
artists of all stripes – musicians,
dancers and choreographers,
writers, actors and directors,
designers, visual
artists – as well as arts
organizations, theaters, orchestras,
museums, galleries, and those who
work as support staff in the arts –
 Housing and
Development
In this sector, we find both public
and
private non-profit housing agencies
and
organizations that provide rent
subsidies
and/or affordable housing, as well
as
developers who build market-rate
 Sports and Recreation
This sector might include sports clubs, town or
county recreation departments, amateur and
professional athletic associations, public and
private sports and recreation facilities, the YMCA,
gyms, coaches, personal trainers, recreation
leaders, and camp directors, as well as those who
participate in these groups as athletes,
spectators, or supporters.
 The Environment
Individual environmentalists;
international, national, and local
environmental
organizations (e.g., Greenpeace,
Friends of the Earth, the Sierra
Club, local preservation
organizations); conservation
land trusts;recreational hunters
and mountaineers, fishermen, rock
 Characteristics of Sectoral
Communities:

1. Voluntary , non-profit and

non-governmental
2. Third sector (in contrast to
public and private sector 
3. NGOs:Non-governmental
organizations
Non-profit organization
A nonprofit organization is a
business
that has been granted tax-
exempt
status by the Internal Revenue
Service
(IRS) because it furthers a
 Non-governmental
organization
Organizations which are
independent of government
involvement are
known as non-governmental
organizations or NGOs or non-
government organizations.
 IBON Foundation
IBON Foundation is a research-
education-information and
advocacy organization
committed to serve the
marginalized sectors. They seek to
contribute to
people’s empowerment by
generating and collecting socio-
 Philippine Red Cross
The PRC provides six major
services: Blood Services,
Disaster Management
Services, Safety Services,
Community Health and Nursing
Services, Social Services and
the Volunteer Services.
 Philippine Center for
Investigative Journalism

An independent, nonprofit
media agency that
specializes in investigative
reporting of
political, social, and
related issues surrounding
Pro- Life Philippines

On upholding the value of

Life
 Habitat for Humanity
Philippines (HFHP)

A non-profit Christian ministry

working to help build
responsible and self-reliant
communities by enabling
Filipino families in need to
acquire affordable, decent, and
durable homes.
 SOCIAL SPACE

A social space is a physical

or a virtual space such as
social center, online social
media, or other gathering
place where people gather
and interact.
 Characteristics of Social Space
Communities
Environmental infrastructures
Natural and semi-natural (man influenced)
greeninfrastructure elements
Natural spaces
Environment as a social space,place of interaction
Public space/open space related to human’s daily
life
Green recreation zones
Neutral groinds for different groups to come
together  Social green surrounding
Outdoor space
Safe place, etc.
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