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Comparison between Society and Community
The fundamental difference between community and society is the difference between the part and whole. To arrive at a distinction between two things we have to place them apart from each other but to take away community from the whole from the society is to destroy the completeness of society.
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Population is one of the most essential characteristicsof a community irrespective of the consideration whether people have or do not have conscious relations. |
Population is important but here the population is conditioned by a feeling of oneness. Thus conscious relations are more important than the mere population for a society. |
A community by nature is discrete as compared with society. |
By nature and character society is abstract. |
For community area or locality is very essential and that perhaps is the reason that the community had a definite shape. |
Society is area less and shapeless and for a society area is no consideration. |
A community has comparatively narrow scope of community sentiments and as such it cannot have wide heterogeneity. |
A society has heterogeneity and because of its wide scope and field can embrace people having different conflicts. |
The scope of community is narrow than that of society because community came much later than the society. Though the primitive people might not have understood the importance of community but they realized that of the society and lived in it. |
The society has much wider scope as compared with the community. |
In a community every effort is made to avoid differences or conflicts and to bring likeness as nearly as possible because cooperation and conflicts cannot exist in a community. |
In a society likeness and conflict can exist side by side andin fact the scope of society is so vast that there is every possibility of adjustment. |
A community cannot be self sufficient because of its limited scope, nature and it is more or less impossible in our modern complex society. |
It is possible for a society to become self-sufficient.In fact every society tries to throw bonds of dependency to the extent possible. |
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