Difference between

Society and
Community
The major difference between a community and a society has to do with
their respective sizes.
A society is a much larger group than a community. A society can be
defined as a group of people that share a defined territory and who have a
shared culture. They do not, of course, have to share every single aspect of
their culture, but they have to have the same general culture. Therefore,
we would typically say that Americans form a society because they occupy
the United States and because they generally share an American culture.
By contrast, a community is rather a small entity in sociological terms. A
community can only consist of people who typically interact with one
another. Two people cannot be part of a community if they do not tend to
interact with one another on a relatively intimate basis. Therefore, a
community is something whose size is limited by the ability of people to
interact with one another on a personal basis.
We can say, then, that a community is a much smaller and more intimate
grouping than a society is.