..."consists 5. RM Maciver, Community, a Sociological Study, pp. vii-x; 22-24. G. The Community, p. 9. of the people in a local area tributary to the center of their common interests." He stresses the need for distinguishing between such a community and the neighborhood which "consists...

...village centers as a matter of social economy. From this analysis there is advanced the definition: "A rural community consists of the people in a local...tributary to the center of their common interests." This definition would apply equally well to the village community, and to distinguish the modern rural...

...consequence cannot easily be given wider application. Sanderson, for example, has defined community as the smallest geographical unit of organized association of the chief human activities. From his point of view a city is a mere aggregation of people living together under a city government,...

...either group existing without the other. The Community Defined. — "A rural community," says Sanderson, "consists of the people in a local area tributary...geographical unit of organized association of the chief human activities."1 Note several fundamental factors in making a community. 1. While certain territorial...

...neighborhood in the county is ceasing to function as a social unit. A rural community, on the other hand, consists of the people in a local area tributary to...geographical unit of organized association of the chief human activities.1 The last two statements sum up the changing situation where the small open-country neighborhoods...

...Community," by EL Morgan. Extension Bulletin No. jj, p. 9, Massachusetts Agricultural College, 1918. of the people in a local area tributary to the center of their common interests." 1 It means people tied by their interests. The threads which have run through all these statements...

...into Middle Valley. In accordance with the definition which we have accepted of rural community, as the people in a local area tributary to the center of their common interests, it seems logical to conclude that the people of the two sections of Upper Valley, Ten or twelve families...

...an attempt at social theorizing. The rural community is, by the method of composition, defined as " the people in a local area tributary to the center of their common interests."1 If the search is for an objective "thing," this is perhaps an adequate definition; but...