Many social scientists suggested a possibility of building a new community which could make up weak ties in a modern society. Faced with this challenge, some practitioners have attempted a community-based movement to create a new community. This movem...
Many social scientists suggested a possibility of building a new community which could make up weak ties in a modern society. Faced with this challenge, some practitioners have attempted a community-based movement to create a new community. This movement stimulated theory and practice in this area. Based on these efforts, our study suggested ‘the new community.’ ‘Communal trait’ existed in this community. There are three typical components in the communal trait: trust, networks, and reciprocity. These elements were derived out based on social capital theory. Furthermore, the community was classified into three types based on cultural theory: individualism-oriented community, hierarchy-centered community and egalitarian-oriented community. These theoretical discussion suggested a theoretical basis for the new community model. When this model applied to actual cases, it provided a useful theoretical clues to explain existing communes, corporative associations, and community building projects. This model achieves more theoretical elaboration if future research deals with the dynamics of community. It also contributes to extend theoretical discussion in the community research. Furthermore, when a case study extract more community characteristics based on theoretical discussion in this study, our research proves additional validity in the dynamics of community.