This presentation explains the difference between society and community. It is basic difference often asked in sociology. People often get confused and use society and community word interchangeably but there is a difference between these words which is well explained in the slides.

1. SOCIETY vs COMMUNITY

2. COMMUNITY
SOCIETY

3. QUICK
DIFFERENCE

4. SOCIETY COMMUNITY
A definite geographic area is not an essential aspect of
society.
A Community always denoted a definite locality or
geographic area.
Society is a broader concept and abstract in nature. Community is narrower concept and concrete in nature.
Society refers to a system (or web) of social relationships
.
Community refers to a group of people who live in a definite
locality.
Society is based on both similarities as well as
differences.
Community is based on only similarities among its members.
A society may or may not have community sentiment. Without a community sentiment a community can’t be
constituted.
A society is more concerned with organization A community is concerned with life from which organization
develops.
The objectives and interests of society are more
extensive and varied.
The objectives and interests of a community are
comparatively less extensive and varied.

5. LET’S GO IN
DEPTH !

6. SOCIETY
SOCIUS = Friend
A web of social relationship

7. Society refers to a system or network of
relationships that exists among these individuals.
A society is intangible, it is a process rather than a
thing.
Society has no definite locality or boundary
because it refers to a system of social
relationships. Hence it is universal or pervasive.
SOCIETY

8. Society is the complex of organised associations and institutions with a
community.
- G.D.M. Cole
Society is the union itself, the organisation, the sum of formal relations in
which associating individuals are bound together.
-Prof. Giddings
The term society refers not to group of people, but to the complex
pattern of the norms of interaction, that arise among and between them.
-Lapiere
A society is a collection of individuals united by certain relations or mode of behaviour which mark
them off from others who do not enter into these relations or who differ from them in behaviour.
-Morris Ginsberg

9. COMMUNITYcollection of people in a geographical area
‘com’ = together + ‘munis’ = serve

10. COMMUNITY
Community is a people living within a
geographical area in common inter-
dependence. It exists within the society.
It is bound by the territorial units. It is a
specific group while society is abstract.
Community living is natural to man.

11. Community is a social group with some degree of “we-feeling” and living
in a given area.
-Bogardus
Community is an area of social living marked by some degree of social
coherence.
-R.M. Maclver
Community is the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects
of social life.
-Kingsley Davis
A Community is a group or collection of groups that inhabits a locality.
-Ogburn and Nimkoff

12. THE END
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