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Community Building

By: Xavier de Souza Briggs
In: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World
Edited by: Karen Christensen & David Levinson
Subject:Community Psychology, Sociology of Communities
Keywords:bookselling; community building; customer loyalty; customers; healthy communities; immunization; networks and communities

Community building has come to refer to a variety of intentional efforts to organize and strengthen social connections or to build common values and norms that promote collective goals (or both)—that is, to build more community (an interim goal) as a ...

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  Briggs, X. (2003). Community building. In K. Christensen, & D. Levinson (Eds.), Encyclopedia of community: From the village to the virtual world (Vol. 1, pp. 247-250). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n97
  
  Briggs, Xavier de Souza. "Community Building." In Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, edited by Christensen, Karen, and David Levinson, 247-50. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n97.
  
  Briggs, X. 2003. Community Building. In: Karen Christensen and David Levinson Editors, 2003. Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 247-250 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n97> [Accessed 15 May 2021].
  
  Briggs, Xavier de Souza. "Community Building." Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Edited by Karen Christensen and David Levinson. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 247-50. SAGE Knowledge. 15 May 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952583.n97.
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