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The degree to which a community or organization has unity, is the degree to which it can make decisions as a whole. It is not the same thing as homogeneity (all the same), but where people recognize and respect each others' differences, yet recognize a common bond. It is a shared sense of belonging to a known entity (ie the group composing the community), although every community has divisions or schisms (religious, class, status, income, age, gender, ethnicity, clans), the degree to which community members are willing to tolerate the differences and variations among each other and are willing to cooperate and work together, a sense of a common purpose or vision, shared values. Unity is one of the sixteen elements of strength, power or capacity of a community or organization. See: Elements of Community Strength. When a community or organization is more unified, it is stronger. (Unity does not mean that everyone is the same, but that everyone tolerates and understands each others' differences, and works for the common good). When simulating a community
to organize and act, the mobilizer needs to be aware of the role of unity
in empowering that community or organization.
No community is naturally unified; there are always conflict and competition, if not social schisms that tear every community apart. See Unity Organizing. That is why it is the
task of every mobilizer to engage in activities that promote unity, so
that a community decision (eg to choose a particular plan of action) is
truly the choice of the whole community rather than only a choice of a
particular faction.
The attribute "utility" is the degree to which something is "useful."This attribute, utility, is one of the two essential elements of wealth or value (the other is relative scarcity). A "Public Utility"
(eg electricity) is something useful to the public or society as a whole.
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