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Literary notes about communities (AI summary)

The word "communities" is employed in literature as a multifaceted term that can denote groups of individuals, social collectives, natural entities, or even abstract ideals that bind people and things together. In sociological and anthropological texts, for example, authors explore communities as units of social structure and natural organization—as seen in studies comparing animal associations and human groupings [1, 2, 3, 4]—while classical works challenge the reader to consider how diverse communities impact governance and individual identity [5]. In American political and historical texts, "communities" often underpins notions of neighborly bonds and localized self-governance, as illustrated by Jefferson’s reference to neighborhood groups [6] and Washington’s depiction of evolving social bodies [7]. Meanwhile, literary works extend the concept metaphorically, whether in the analysis of collective judgments or in depictions of entirely fictional societal constructs, such as Martian communities [8]. Together, these examples reflect the term’s adaptability and its central role in articulating both the tangible and the symbolic aspects of group identity across literature.
  1. [A definition of society based upon a comparative study of animal associations, communities, and societies.] (4) Spencer, Herbert.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  2. PLANT COMMUNITIES AND ANIMAL SOCIETIES (1) Clements, Frederic E. Plant Succession.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  3. Plant Communities.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  4. Certain species of animals are likewise confined to certain plant-communities.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
  5. Or shall the magistrates differ as the communities differ?
    — from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle
  6. These are the Men formed for Society, and those little Communities which we express by the Word Neighbourhoods .
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  7. Whole communities are fast being revolutionized through the instrumentality of these men and women.
    — from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
  8. Two green Martian communities had been wiped off the face of Barsoom by the avenging fleets, but no trace of Dejah Thoris had been found.
    — from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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