What is Community

Defining Community The word ‘community’ is used, and abused, in several ways. I would like to define the word ‘community’ and later on I would define the community work, particularly my own experience of working with South Asian community for last twenty years. I would also incorporate various other theories, academic work on this issue. The realistic definition of ‘community’ as a working idea related to peoples’ residence, employment, leisure patterns, and to services provided …

…future society. Feminist theory and the black and anti-racist critique, have demonstrated that all oppressed groups, women and black people, can, through collective action, attempt to overcome their subordination. Feminism, both as a socio-political theory and as a social movement, has, reconstructed perspectives in many different areas of life. Together, feminist theory and the black and anti-racist critique have implications for community work theory that do not rely on either localised analysis or materialist perspectives.