Many people have different ideas of what a community is and what makes a community successful, but, overall, the themes of unity and cooperation come to mind. The writer Rousseau displayed his thoughts about community in his book,
The main idea he discussed was that people must surrender their freedom in order to gain the benefits of functioning collectively as a group. I decided to test this theory by observing some of the staff members of a nursing home who are attending a meeting to come up with specific solutions for each residents’ weight loss problem. Every week the same staff members, which include the director of nursing, two unit managers, the dietary manager, and the dietician, meet to review the weights of all patients and, more…