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Gusfield (1975) distinguished between two major uses of “community”: (1) territorial and geographical notion of community-neighborhood, town, city; (2) relational community with quality character of human relationship without reference to location. Community provides social bonding and behavioral rootedness for local residents (Riger & Lavrakas, 1981). Doolittle and MacDonald (1978) used 40 items to measure the sense of (territorial/geographical) community scale in five categories: informal interaction with neighbors, safety to have a good place to live, proubanism (privacy and anonymity), neighboring preferences for frequent neighbor interaction, and localism—with opinions and a desire to participate in neighborhood affairs. Studying rural communities, Bachrach and Zautra (1985) found that a stronger sense of community might lead to a greater sense of purpose and perceived control in dealing with an external threat.
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Han, I., Hou, ST. (2016). The Rural Community of Regeneration: Yong-An Community at Luyeh Taitung. In: Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403810_9
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