Also known as “community of people”. A stable social group of people connected by certain bonds in the course of their common social practice and social life. It refers to a wide range of classes, political parties, nationalities, countries, enterprises, communities, schools, families, as well as clans and tribes in primitive societies. There is a close relation between the social community and the human individual. On the one hand, the social community is a complex that consists of individuals, each of which is the product of certain social relations and the basis upon which individuals depend for their existence; when individuals are weak or incompetent, they rely more on the social community. The development of the social community also provides a sound foundation for the development of the individual. At the same time, without the development of the individual, there can be no development of the social community…
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