The Importance of Community

Community is very important and has many factors like kinship, unity, and identity. Community helps society because it creates solutions, provides security and reveals dedication. It discovers truthfulness. Communities are part of everyday life and have positive affects on its members. Communities can be found everywhere and can be created anywhere. You may be unaware of it, but you are part of a community not only based on your location, but also based on your lifestyle, your religion, your heritage, your education, or your abilities. As Hewitt once said, “Community provides a psychological world and a place of identification for its members.” Identifying yourself with a particular community may be easier than it sounds. Knowing only a little about yourself can help you find a group that will help you help yourself. Knowing that you are strongly pro-life will allow you to be welcomed into the Students for Life club on campus. Knowing your religious values and beliefs will let you relate easier to others who feel the same way. A group of people with something in common is a priority point of community. As Hewitt says, “Communities are based on a great many different grounds not solely on the basis of territory.” Though finding something in common with the people around you may not be easy, a fact that will be easy to see is that all these people are in the same vicinity and therefore are a community due to location. The people who live on your block or in your neighborhood are part of your community also. However, communities are generalized as well as specified. A general location, such as a city, can be called a community, but specified within that city are many sub-communities, such as school communities or business communities. To be even more specific, schools have clubs and organizations which can also be called communities, or business buildings may have many different companies and each individual company could be a