How is collaboration important within communities?What contributes to a successfully organized community?In what way does an individual contribute to democracy?

Mary Parker Follett and Her Outlook on Democracy:

Mary Parker Follett played a crucial role in the development of thought and practice in the field of adult and informal education throughout the twentieth century. Her work on conceptions of community, experience, the group, and how they interacted with the individual was a crucial component in the development of conceptualization and practice of groupwork, as well as in the creation and organization of communities.

In this paper will focus on her idea that to successfully participate in a democracy you must cooperatively engage and participate in democracy, and not give the responsibility to someone else. This logical idea is seemingly effective, which raises many questions. How is collaboration important within communities?What contributes to a successfully organized community?In what way does an individual contribute to democracy?

Follett presents a key idea on democracy in the new state, that is, that the individual is the state, and the state is the individual. If one builds their own life with their own experiences, the outcome is a connected democracy. A functioning democracy consists of a community built by finding common motives, integration, a concept of power with, and group process.