ABSTRACT
Every human community once had a specific character, identity, a manner of existence in which its residents also partook, accepting as their own its problems and virtues. According to the record carefully assembled for us by sociology, rural sociology, and anthropology, each type of community-primitive, rural agricultural, urban industrial, suburban-was a crucible in which formed a human type and a distinctive social conscience. There were thus alienated suburbanites, industrial masses, agrarian ‘plain folk,’ rebellious frontiersmen, liberal urbanites, and others, each a human response to the social contract: under what conditions and agreements does one live in this particular community?
