On two types of social community

In all the diversity of social communities, two main types can be distinguished - abstract-universal and concrete-universal. Abstract-universal communities provide one-sided development of a person, while concrete-universal ones - all-round, integral. It becomes possible to reveal the essence and relationship of these communities only when analyzing the essence of a person, the relationship of the generic and individual in it. Of particular difficulty is the definition of concrete-universal communities, such as an ethnos and a family, since, absorbing all the diversity of abstract-universal communities, they do not exactly coincide with them.