(1) Community is often loosely and emotively employed as an imprecise synonym for society. This usage is often employed by politicians or by others making political addresses who want to emphasise the mutuality and sense of obligation of all members of a political unit over some issue. For example, "The community has a duty to ensure that the rights of the poor should be looked after. Such use of community by the politicians or others is imprecise, misleading and to be avoided.

(2) Community is used to designate a category of people who do share certain characteristics but who also have many differences from one another. Instances of quite different types are: the Ca

The term community is likewise a contested concept and there is no universally agreed meaning. An understanding of community work can be related to political values. Since the 1960s community work theory and practice have been influenced by two macro theories: the pluralist; and the radical and socialist.

Critical of the pluralist model of community work for its negation of a wider political analysis.

tholic community (or Jewish, Protestant, Moslem or any other religion), the Black community (or white, coloured, etc.), the Italian, Irish, Asian or West Indian community-meaning a set of people from those countries living in another. Such usage has some validity, but only if it is clearly limited by precise qualifications when we use the term. It can be dangerous and can be used in a chauvinistic and disruptive way which stimulate aggression by one group of people against others, and the history of war propaganda is replete with such instances.

(5) Community seems to me most usefully and precisely employed to refer to a limited area of living identified as such by the people in it with reference to common residence, common interest, and mutual inter-action and obligation.1

(4) Community often occurs as a synonymous adjective for social, and this imprecise usage has become increasingly common in social work lit

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