community

community

refers to a group of people who share social relationships through being geographically close to each other and/or being in regular contact with each other, and through having similarities such as mutual interests and/or shared ideology

Gemeinschaft

a cohesive, close and long-lasting relationship on a community level often used to describe family relationships within small geographical communities

Gesellschaft

  refers to the individualistic and impersonal relationships on a societal level, used to describe post-industrial and urban communities where people are more anonymous, private and busy.

industrialisation

The process of transforming an economy from an agricultural based one to a manufacturing-based one

urbanisation

The growth of cities and the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas