Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of organizations, institutions and structure > communities (sociology) > intentional communities > intentional communities and governance

Preferred term

intentional communities and governance  

Definition

  • Most contemporary intentional communities govern themselves through some form of participatory democracy, such as majority-rule voting or consensus decision making. Some have or have had a single leader and a hierarchical system of governance. [Source: Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World; Intentional Communities and Governance]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-JQZJ7F41-0

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD