A Template of Decline of Cohesion and the End of Community..

[Doug Hamilton]

A Checklist:  

..something of a template

for how community evidently can go into decline:

  

Diminution in effective cheering of core values,

diminishing cohesion,

administrative rigidity setting in,

loss of engaged altruism towards the community,

loss of people,

loss of donors,

loss of critical mass,

financial crisis,

and finally an auction of assets attendant to the dispersal of community. 

Marking loss of communal cohesion to loss of core values this template is abstracted from one session of three papers on the decline and the ends of three historic communal groups delivered at the 2018 Communal Studies Association annual conference.