Idea: Community Empowerment Study Group

This page is devoted to collecting resources for understanding community in the broadest sense. It will include study of  traditional "community development" of physical community assets as well as social assets. It will also offer study options relating to building stronger community organizations, enhancing rewards for participation, and encouraging people to take leadership roles.

Ontology: This branch of philosophy or metaphysics is concerned with the nature of existence. Ontological assumptions are those assumptions that underpin theories about what kind of entities can exist.

from the Penguin Dictionary of Sociology