The MTSOCS: A multidimensional sense of community scale for local communities

Assumptions that local communities have an endogenous capacity to adapt to climate change stemming from time-tested knowledge and an inherent sense of community that prompts mobilisation are becoming increasingly common in material produced by international organisations. This discourse, which relies on ahistorical and apolitical conceptions of localities and populations, is based on ideas of timeless knowledge and places. Analysing the water-place nexus in Ladakh, in the Indian Himalayas, through a close study of glacier practices as they change over time, the article argues that local knowledge is subject to change and must be analysed in light of changing conceptions and experiences of place by the state and by local populations alike.

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Poczucie wspólnotowości w wymiarze pedagogicznym. Uzasadnienie teoretyczne i kierunki badań

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny ◽

10.32346/2657-6007.kp.2020-1.1 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 9-26

Author(s):

Jolanta Muszyńska

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Social Participation ◽

Social Problems ◽

Social Activity ◽

Local Communities ◽

Internal Resources ◽

Local Environments ◽

Local Space ◽

Pedagogical Research

The sense of community is recognised as a key category favouring the development of local communities, conducive to the growth of social activity, supporting the activation of internal resources of the group in the field of solving social problems. The main goal of the article is to show the possibility of using the assumptions of the theory of community-relatedness in pedagogical research. The author indicates how much and to what extent the sense of community is complementing the area of research of contemporary local environments. The analysis of research on the sense of community conducted by American and European researchers determines possible areas and directions of research with particular emphasis on social participation in the local space.

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Sense of community and interethnic relations: comparing local communities varying in ethnic heterogeneity

Journal of Community Psychology ◽

10.1002/jcop.20459 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 39 (6) ◽

pp. 663-677 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Federica Castellini ◽

Monica Colombo ◽

Daniele Maffeis ◽

Lorenzo Montali

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Local Communities ◽

Ethnic Heterogeneity ◽

Interethnic Relations

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Neighborhood hotspot and community awareness: The double role of social network sites in local communities

Communications ◽

10.1515/commun-2019-0135 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Jonas De Meulenaere ◽

Bastiaan Baccarne ◽

Cédric Courtois ◽

Koen Ponnet

Keyword(s):

Social Network ◽

Digital Media ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Social Network Sites ◽

Local Communities ◽

Community Based ◽

Community Awareness ◽

Action Context ◽

Communication Infrastructure Theory

AbstractThere is a tendency in the literature on local digital media use and neighborhood outcomes to conceptualize Social Network Sites (SNSs) as mere transmission channels, thereby ignoring SNSs’ dynamics and limiting the understanding of their role in neighborhood life. Informed by Communication Infrastructure Theory and social media literature, we propose and test a model to investigate the association between the use of SNSs, appropriated as online neighborhood networks, and neighborhood sense of community. We administered a survey to Flemish online neighborhood network users (n = 590) and found that active localized SNS use brings about an online sense of community and community awareness, which both independently lead to a neighborhood sense of community. Based on these findings, we argue that SNSs, appropriated as online neighborhood networks, function simultaneously as neighborhood hotspots in a neighborhood’s communication action context as well as community awareness media in a neighborhood’s storytelling network.

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Multidimensional Sense of Community Scale for Local Communities--Short Version

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t49553-000 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Emily Schryer ◽

Steven E. Mock ◽

Margo Hilbrecht ◽

Donna Lero ◽

Bryan Smale

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Local Communities ◽

Short Version

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Entrepreneurship of an institutional field: the emergence of coworking spaces for digital business models

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal ◽

10.1007/s11365-020-00689-4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 1465-1481 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Ricarda B. Bouncken ◽

Sascha Kraus ◽

Juan F. Martínez-Pérez

Keyword(s):

Sense Of Community ◽

Rural Areas ◽

World Wide ◽

Business Models ◽

Real Space ◽

Local Communities ◽

Digital Business Models ◽

The Common ◽

Coworking Spaces ◽

Urban And Rural Areas

Abstract Coworking spaces have been proliferating world-wide in urban and rural areas while facilitating entrepreneurship and new, especially digital business models. Our research analyzes the worldwide expansion by drawing upon mechanisms from institutional theory. We argue that the sense of community, emotional activation, the local communities together with the digital linkages and the open office allowed coworking spaces to evolve as a real space for entrepreneurship. The common lifestyle and the high digital identity of the users further explain the emergence of this entrepreneurship field that shows high convergent forms of coworking spaces. The key divergence comes with different ownership models.

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Identity, sense of community and connectedness in a community of mobile language learners

ReCALL ◽

10.1017/s0958344008000839 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 361-379 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

Sobah Abbas Petersen ◽

Monica Divitini ◽

George Chabert

Keyword(s):

Language Learning ◽

Language Learners ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Local Communities ◽

Target Language ◽

Design Considerations ◽

Mobile Community ◽

The One ◽

Travel Abroad ◽

Support Students

AbstractMobility can affect a learner's participation in different communities that support language learning. In this paper we report on our experience with supporting a course in which language students are encouraged to travel to a country where the target language is spoken. On the one hand, students who travel abroad get in contact with local communities,which can promote their learning of the language and the culture. On the other hand, they risk losing contact with their classmates and the support that they provide. In this context we introduced a mobile community blog with the aim of extending the learning arena and promoting the sharing of knowledge among the students, independently of their location. This paper discusses the design considerations for the blog and describes its use to support students' sense of community. An evaluation and analysis of the usage of the blog is presented. These results suggest that the learners lack an identity within the community of language learners and there was no sense of community among the members. Reflecting on these results, we suggest that while a blog might be an appropriate tool for promoting knowledge sharing, it lacks functionalities to promote connectedness among learners and foster their identity as a community.

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Using Concept Mapping methodology to visualize Italian activists' motivations to collective action

PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA ◽

10.3280/psc2021-002004 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 42-58

Author(s):

Carlo Pistoni ◽

Lisa M. Vaughn ◽

Maura Pozzi

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Collective Action ◽

Concept Mapping ◽

Sense Of Community ◽

Social Issues ◽

Local Communities ◽

Civic Responsibility ◽

Political Arena ◽

Research Concept

In a political arena that is increasingly active on social issues, associations now more than ever need people who are committed to social change. Participatory methodologies are there-fore increasingly important to actively engage people and promote dialogue and collaboration between academia and local communities. In the present research, concept mapping methodology was applied with the aim of identifying the motivations underlying the commitment of a group of Italian activists to collective action. Findings suggest that sense of community and civic responsibility, typically "community" dimensions, are central in motivating the commit-ment of Italian activists.

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