ABSTRACT
Earlier, in chapter 4, we encountered the concept of community as an important concept
in social policy. Sometimes, as we saw, the values of community and fraternity are
counterposed to a picture of society based upon recognition of rights and duties and to
what might be thought of as procedural relationships between people. Titmuss
particularly seemed to operate with this kind of distinction. In the present chapter it will
be argued that the concept of community is far too protean and unclear to play a
straightforward role in either understanding or legitimating social policy. In the following
chapter Titmuss’s views will be examined in more detail.
