S/S/67. What elements of the pre-industrial community survived into the industrial pattern of life?

The term 'community' relating to the study of society presents a particular problem for sociologists in that a unifying theory of the sociology of community has never emerged. Bureaucracies and institutions of influence have long been aware of the value and worth that are historically attached to the word 'community'. The aim appears to be to construct and engineer society in a way that makes community appear natural. In this sense 'community' has become an adjective, outlining a social construction rather than a natural state; an abstraction intent on class control, rather than the nurturing of a naturally occurring phenomenon.