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Difference between Society and Community

Society

Community

refers to a system or network of relationships that exists among these individuals

refers to a group of individual living within a definite locality with some degree of we-feeling.

has no definite locality or boundary Hence it is universal.

a community always associated with a definite locality.

society may or may not have community sentiment. Society is more concerned with organization

is an essential characteristic of community. Community is concerned with life from which organization develops.

Society refers to a system of social relationships

has its own physical existence

and live in a definite locality

Society is a broader concept

community is smaller than society.

based on both similarities as well as differences

based on only similarities among its members.

The size of a society is always large

Size of a community may be small or big like

a village community or a nation community

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