Robert M. MacIver 
Community, A Sociological Study [PDF ebook] 
Being an Attempt to Set Out the Nature and Fundamental Laws of Social Life

First published in 1917, this work seeks to be an introduction to the concept of community, the term which best expresses the object which social science as such endeavours to study; it is in community, the common life, that the interests represented by the specific social sciences are bound together, made integral, and thus amenable to a more comprehensive science. Community, A Sociological Study, includes an examination on the false perspectives of community, the elements of community, the structure of community and institutions.