Flashcards: Community building

A credit union is a member-owned financial cooperative, democratically controlled by its members, and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift, providing credit at competitive rates, and providing other financial services to its members.

Consensus reality is that which is generally agreed to be reality, based on a consensus view.

Social capital is a form of economic and cultural capital in which social networks are central, transactions are marked by reciprocity, trust, and cooperation, and market agents produce goods and services not mainly for themselves, but for a common good.

A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.

In economics, a local currency, is a currency that can be spent in a particular area at participating organisations.

A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals.

Solidarity is unity (as of a group or class) which produces or is based on unities of interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies.

Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of network and graph theories.

An online community is a virtual community whose members interact with each other primarily via the Internet.

The Cafe Church, a Christian church model that can be associated with alternative worship and the emerging church movements, seeks to find new forms and approaches to existing as a church in the 21st century.

Civic nationalism, also known as liberal nationalism, is a kind of nationalism identified by political philosophers who believe in a non-xenophobic form of nationalism compatible with values of freedom, tolerance, equality, and individual rights.

Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective.

Gemeinschaft (German pronunciation: [ɡəˈmaɪnʃaft]) and Gesellschaft ([ɡəˈzɛlʃaft]), generally translated as "community and society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in order to categorize social ties into two dichotomous sociological types which define each other.

"Media and democracy" is a set of ideas advocating reforming the mass media, strengthening public service broadcasting, and developing and participating in alternative media and citizen journalism.

Youth mainstreaming is a public policy concept.