COMMUNITY

Commnunity can known as society is a group of people that gathering together to shape a system (whether is open or closed system) where most of it interaction are individuals in that group. Community came from Arab languange that was named “musyarak” , it means some connections between entities.

Community is depend to each others, generally. Talk about community, community itself has its characteristic features. The characteristic features of community (society), are as follow :

1.Community is the a group of people that living together. The first community is humans that live together and make a group. This group that would make a community. They know and depend to each other. Social Unity is an embodiment of relationship in humans. Human can’t be possible to continue his or her life without depending their lifes to each others.

2.Community that give the birth of culture. The next community is give the birth of culture. In a concept, there’s no community that has no culture and so otherwise. Community itself that will give the birth of culture and culture itself that has inherited from generation to the other generation by any attitude process.

3.Community that experencies the culture. The third community has experience of the culture. As well as happen in the culture, community is also change. Some change that happen that caused by a few factors that come from inside community itself. For example, in the invention could might make the change to community itself.

4.Community is humans that interact. The fourth community is humans that interact to each others. One of the precondition of the realization in community is some relation and corporation between the experts and this will give the birth of interaction. This interaction could be apply whether in formal or non-formal (oral or non-oral) and communication is apply if community meets each other.

5.Community that has the leadership. The fifth community has it own leadership.

In this theory, leader consists from leader of family, leader of village (tribs), leader of the country, and etc.

6.Community that has Social Stratification. This is the last characteristic of community. Social Stratification means, put someone based on his or her level and also the role that has to be played inside community.

The elements of community, are as follow :

A.           Social Units, consist from :

1)                       The crowd, has it own characteristics :

·     Happen because the same center of attention

·     Interact between individuals that already exist, by comments, answer the questions around the objects that being the center of attention.

·     Crowd usually walk fast

·     Feeling as one unity that already exist for a while dan will be gone when the crowd is over.

2)                       Social Category; is the groups in community that based on general characteristics. Whether it’s objective general characteristic or not, like the stereoptype from the members of the group.

3)                       Association, is the unity that shaped for special purposes. Association is shaped the same mean,interest, education, profession skills, or religions. Association is an organization that is made by humans in formal way, has special purposes, has the limit personal members, relationship between the members is not personal, has the articles of budgets and budgets of bylaws.

4)                       Collectivity, usually based on the spotlight characteristics whether it’s physical or cultural

5)                       Group, is a social unity that has organization system, it means the classification of individuals in certain moments and times, and has the leadership element and certain rules.

B.            Social Institution, is the symbol of any responses that has been formulated and systematised from any life necessities.