Who first defined the word “community” as a ‘group established by men having shared values’ ?

Who first defined the word “community” as a ‘group established by men having shared values’ ? Correct Answer Aristotle

Community is a circle of interwoven relationships. Within the ranges of a community, the members may carry on their economic, political, religious, educational, and other activities. Hence community is the total organization of social life within a defined social space; e. g. Village, tribe, city, district. 

Key Points

• It was Aristotle who first defined the word "community" as a group established by men having shared values.
• That initial definition has been refined and expanded through the years. We have come, for example, to recognize that people can belong to a number of different "communities" simultaneously- communities of place, cultural communities, communities of memory, in which people who may be strangers share "a morally significant history", and psychological communities "of face-to-face personal interaction governed by sentiments of trust, co-operation, and altruism."

Thus, Aristotle was the one who defined the word “community” as a ‘group established by men having shared values’.