Racial/ethnic/gender/sexuality centered communities.

Racial /ethnic /gender /sexuality entered communities

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I . Introduction

The key concept of this study is community . There are many ways of defining this term , just as there are many ways of defining most of the central concepts of sociology . From the ecological perspective however , the term community usually refers to a population that carries out major life functions (e .g , birth , reproduction , death ) within a particular territory . Community is also defined as a relatively large group of people

who have common values and interests , relatively enduring ties , frequent face-to-face interaction , and a sense of being close to one another (Freedman , 2001

Further , contemporary sociology does not assume that there will ever be a steady state ' or an end to the process of change in human communities . Instead , it attempts to trace the change and document its consequences for the social environment . What happens when a new race invade ' a community ? In what way are homosexuals a response to recent changes in population or in ability of members of a community to compete for jobs ? Not only do populations change , but people 's preferences and behaviors also continually change . So do the technology for producing the goods and services we want . As a result , our ways of getting a living , our modes of transportation , and our choices of leisure activities create constant change not only in communities but in entire societies

II . Background

At a level of social organization between the primary group and the larger institutions of the nation-state are communities of all s . Communities are sets of primary and secondary groups in which the individual carries out important life functions such as raising a family , gaining a living , finding shelter , and the like Sociologists recognized that there are many processes by which society is governed , but their most important contribution to the discipline of sociology was to include these processes by which populations change and communities are formed (Blau ,1995

Thus this examines racial /ethnic /gender /sexuality centered communities . This examines the idea of community in these areas Explains how these areas have shaped communities , and suggest why they continue to play a central part - for better or worse - in the world of communities today

III . Body of the

All over the world , communities are divided - and sometimes propelled to violence - by culture , color , gender , sex , and social heritage . Surely one of the greatest ironies is that these characteristics that most define communities are the very traits that sometimes prompt people to degrade themselves with hatred and violence toward others

Racial centered communities . Over the course of history , migration carried genetic characteristics once common to a single community through much of the world . In places that have been crossroads ' of human migration , like the United States , community display remarkable racial variation . More isolated locales , such as Japan , exhibit far more racial uniformity . No community , however , is genetically pure in fact , racial mixture occurs all the time as...