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Community spirit can also be defined as pride within a community. Community spirit can be displayed in forms of customized community logo T-shirts, baseball caps, and/ or bumper stickers. Communities can also display spirit by supporting local charities and schools. [1] Community newspapers display spirit in articles relating to local volunteering, local charities, and announce a variety of community topics. For example, Miami Community Newspapers is a local publication in Miami-Dade_County,_Florida. [2] The community’s biweekly newspaper publishes a variation of columns, including articles on education,[3] fundraisers[4] and multiculturalism[5].
1. Reiki in sociology can be helped to heal the self in a positive way. The external and internal self, including I and Me.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiki)
2. Sociological Imagination (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological_imagination)
3. Cultural Transformation Theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_transformation_theory)
4. Emotional Intimacy - this topic seems to be very interesting, in understanding the self. How does the emotional intimacy correlate with depression or happiness? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional_intimacy)
5. Community Spirit - this topic caught my attention because it can relate to group unity and how it can better the community beneficially. Seems something interesting to research. What units people? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_spirit)
Valfo014 (talk) 04:37, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
Community Spirit involves people within the same community which unite together to better their community by volunteering or acting on gestures of goodwill. Community Spirit can be describe as contributions from society to the meet the needs of their community. The needs of a community can be describe as the requirements in order to maintain a stable society.
According to Amitai Etzioni, community spirit is the unity among a society which uphold and share similar values and resources which maintain them.
Functionalism in sociology is the understanding that society can achieve and maintain a state of balance and social equilibrium when working together as a whole through a system of interconnected parts.
Community spirit requires the society as a whole to transmit social contributions, for example, volunteering services like removing debris of the streets effects the community as a whole.
How can community spirit improve
Community spirit is showcased through the efforts of community work. Community work is considered to be thought as being involved in local, neighborhood groups or associations. Community work contributes to the community as a whole with acts on benefit the public interest. [6] According to Random House Dictionary, public interest is "1. the welfare or well-being of the general public; commonwealth. 2. appeal or relevance to the general populace: a news story of public interest."[7]
Valfo014 (talk) 17:55, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
References
edit- ^ Staff. (2014). "Community Harmony & Spirit" (PDF). Best Practices Community Harmony & Spirit. The Foundation for Community Association Research. Retrieved 2016.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ "Miami's Community Newspapers". Miami's Community Newspapers. Retrieved March 2016.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ Kirkpatrick, Jesse (2010). "Hard Cap on Class Sizes Proves Flawed". Miami's Community Newspapers. Retrieved March 2016.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ Community News (2016). "The Best of The Second City, at the Alper JCC's fundraiser". The Best of The Second City, at the Alper JCC’s fundraiser. Miami's Community Newspapers. Retrieved March 2016.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ Kirkpatrick, Jesse (2011). [from http://www.communitynewspapers.com/miami-beach/miami-beach-diversity-at-work/ "Miami Beach: Diversity at Work"]. Miami Beach: Diversity at Work. Miami's Community Newspapers. Retrieved March 2016.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help); Check date values in:|access-date=(help) - ^ Staff. "What Is Community Work?" What Is Community Work? Townsville Community Service, Inc., 2015. Web. 16 Mar. 2016.
- ^ Dictionary.reference.com
- ^ Frans Stiene, The Inner Heart of Reiki: Rediscovering Your True Self
- ^ http://www.reiki.org/faq/howdoesreikiwork.html
- ^ Etzioni, Amitai. The new golden rule: Community and morality in a democratic society. Basic Books, 1998.
- ^ Etzioni, Amitai. Spirit of community. Simon and Schuster, 1994.
- ^ Mooney, Linda A., David Knox, and Caroline Schacht. Understanding Social Problems. Australia: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2013. Print.