Community Formation

Community Formation is a socio-cultural process through which marginalized and often diasporic populations develop shared identities, practices, and institutional networks as acts of resistance, survival, and collective belonging within and across transnational spaces, particularly in relation to racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual formations.

764

Publications

54.3K

Citations

1.4K

Authors

594

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

117

Parents

Afro-latinx StudiesAsian American StudiesDiaspora StudiesQueer Of Color Studies

Children

Affinity GroupsDiasporic MobilizationHomeland TiesIntergenerational Community TransmissionIntersectional Community PoliticsPanethnic SolidarityPolitical SolidarityRacialized BelongingReligious Community Formation

Publications

764

Quantifying community assembly processes and identifying features that impose them

James Stegen, Xueju Lin, Jim Fredrickson et al. · The ISME Journal · 2013 · 2.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Organization Studies, Community Assessment +9

The social space and the genesis of groups

Pierre Bourdıeu · Theory and Society · 1985 · 2.5K citations

Social Sciences, Organization Studies, Sociology +12

Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape

Ronald Rees, Denis Cosgrove · Geographical Review · 1986 · 2.2K citations

Social Sciences, Sociology, Political Sociology +11

Communities of practice: A brief introduction

Étienne Wenger · Scholars' Bank (University of Oregon) · 2009 · 2.1K citations · Full text

Management, Knowledge Management, Communities Of Practice +15

Group formation in large social networks

Lars Bäckström, D.P. Huttenlocher, Jon Kleinberg et al. · 2006 · 1.8K citations

Social Sciences, Sociology, Collective Behavior +12

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Authors

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Gerald D. Suttles
City University of New York, United States
4 publications · 1.5K citations
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Alberto Alesina
Harvard University, United States
3 publications · 2.1K citations
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James A. Drake
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States
3 publications · 794 citations
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Catherine Forde
University College Cork, Ireland
3 publications · 66 citations
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Adam Brown
Deakin University, Australia
3 publications · 253 citations
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Institutions

594

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Venues

Community Development Journal
25 publications · 779 citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 13 publications · 1.3K citations
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American Sociological Review
ASR · 11 publications · 726 citations
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Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews
12 publications · 817 citations
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Social Forces
SF · 8 publications · 1.1K citations
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