ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the communal aspects of life, and begins with a more systematic examination of the major areas of respondents' lives, focusing on the satisfaction or dissatisfaction experienced in each area. It considers then the immediate setting of most marriages and families, one's housing and neighborhood. Then, possibly reaching beyond the immediate family and neighborhood, the chapter considers the satisfaction or dissatisfaction with one's friendships. It turns to the assessment of the respondent's community. Mass society theorists have given considerable attention to the role of occupational and geographic mobility in the corrosion of family, friendship, and community relationships. One characteristic of community life did manage to generate majority dissatisfaction. This was the matter of local taxes, a majority describing them as high or very high.
