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As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

John Dewey
Community, Groups, Village
John Dewey (0101). “Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education”, p.20, Prabhat Prakashan
As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community;