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  2. Local government in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Guam has villages, the U.S. Virgin Islands has districts, and American Samoa has districts and unorganized atolls. [4] [5] [6] Each Indian Reservation is subdivided in various ways. For example, the Navajo Nation is subdivided into agencies and Chapter houses, while the Blackfeet Nation is subdivided into Communities.

  3. Settlement and community houses in the United States

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    Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.

  4. List of American utopian communities - Wikipedia

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    Community based on Communal ownership of property [2] Brook Farm: Massachusetts George Ripley Sophia Ripley: 1841 1846 A Transcendent community. Transcendentalism is a religious and cultural philosophy based in New England. North American Phalanx: New Jersey Charles Sears 1841 1856 A Fourier Society community.

  5. Category:Types of communities - Wikipedia

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    This category is for the many types of community discussed throughout Wikipedia, and it is a subcategory of Category:Community. For articles about specific communities, see Category:Communities . For articles and subcategories that are about community topics , see Category:Community .

  6. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In formal usage, a "village" is a type of administrative division at the local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from legislating on local government, the states are free to have political subdivisions called "villages" or not to and to define the word in many ways.

  7. Community - Wikipedia

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    community-life as interest-based, including sporting, leisure-based and business communities which come together for regular moments of engagement. community-life as proximately-related, where neighbourhood or commonality of association forms a community of convenience, or a community of place (see below). Projected community relations. This is ...

  8. Community organization - Wikipedia

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    Community organization is differentiated from conflict-oriented community organizing, which focuses on short-term change through appeals to authority (i.e., pressuring established power structures for desired change), by focusing on long-term and short-term change through direct action and the organizing of community (i.e., the creation of alternative systems outside of established power ...

  9. Institution - Wikipedia

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    One prominent Rational Choice Institutionalist definition of institutions is provided by Jack Knight who defines institutions as entailing "a set of rules that structure social interactions in particular ways" and that "knowledge of these rules must be shared by the members of the relevant community or society."