Most communities engage in both cooperative and competitive practices. Without cooperation, communities tend to disintegrate; without competition, communities sometimes stagnate.
In your research paper, please select a historical or contemporary community and describe both its cooperative and competitive dimensions. Next, you must explain one or more challenges within the community. Finally, you should argue that the community can move beyond these problems or conflicts through increasing either its competitive/cooperative tendencies, suggesting possible reforms and solutions.
Note: If you’d like, you can write about the related question of imitative and innovative tendencies rather than cooperative and competitive.