Lane describes the difference between Community and Communitas in his book. He calls community a structured setting that is forced upon people in society while communitas is a relationship that forms spontaneously among those in a like state. These people in communitas are in a state of liminality (a threshold state where the person leave previous structure and is in an in-between state) which creates a type of community in which everyone is equal. In communitas there are no rules or structures, because none are needed. In class, we discussed how communitas happens many times on the Appalachian trail as bonds form between the hikers. They have no structured interactions with each other and the relationship develops spontaneously. An example of a community setting would be those that we are put in to achieve a like goal, such as a group project or the learning communities that CNU puts it's freshman into.
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