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"COMMUNITY" In this essay I am going to look at the term 'community', through sociological literature. To do this I will look at varying schools of thought towards 'community'. Moving on to the sociological writings of Ferdinand Tonnies, and his theory of Gemienschaft and Gesellschaft. I will outline the theories, citing their key features; I will then go on to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the theory, by way of comparison against Emile Durkheim and his writings of the division of labour in society, in particular mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity. Community, in ecology is a naturally occurring, non-random, collection of plant and animal life. The community is named after the physical environment, such as a freshwater lake community, or after the dominant species, such as an oak woodland community. In human geography, an interacting group of people living in the same territory: town, village, suburb, or neighbourhood (Kuper, 1999,...

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