ABSTRACT
Communities have been central to all the case studies presented. They hold as powerful centres of being in people’s lives and, over many years, form their ways of thinking and acting. The force of such communities is, in the most part, beneficent. They make a strong secure way of being that engenders confidence and comfort in what that person has become. Here is where the social, the vital force and energy of sociability, might be found. If, in Rousseau’s aphorism, ‘man becomes man amongst men’, it is in such communities that the moral force of society can be studied.
