TYPES OF COMMUNITY
                     TYPES OF 
COMMUNITY
What is a 
community?
 A community is recognized as a distinctive social system 
that impacts and informs an individual’s life through various 
influences and organizational factors. It is as much an 
environment as it is a set of relationships or even a feeling.
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Individuals
An individual is not a community but rather its subject and 
agent. In terms of its focus, this is the narrowest level for 
analysis. The main consideration for this level is examining 
how an individual interacts with his or her community and 
vice versa.
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Microsystems
Just beyond the level of the individual are microsystems. 
Microsystems are the most intimate groups with which an 
individual participates, engages, and grows.
These groups may consist of the following:
 Families
 Friends
 Classmates and teachers
 Coworkers
 Activity or team members
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Organizations
Beyond the level of microsystems is organizations. This 
level is comprised of the institutions that often contain an 
individual’s microsystems. These institutions can, 
depending on their own processes, influence either 
microsystems or the individual through various linkages.
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Localities
For many of us, where we live is foundational to our sense 
of community. Locality, meaning the numerous spaces in 
which an individual resides, orients identity through the 
cultural, political, and economic events and activities that 
occur within them. Localities can be as small as 
neighborhood blocks or as large as entire towns, cities, and 
regions.
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Macrosystems
Macrosystems are the broadest and, to a degree, the most 
intangible. Macrosystems encompass a wide range of 
behaviors and ideas characterizing community systems that 
are more universal in their scope, such as:
 Cultures
 Societies
 Governments
 Belief systems
 Social movements
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Types of 
Community in 
There are twSo tyopesc of icoommluonitiegs Ryural and Urban 
communities, due to different social conditions in both rural 
and urban areas.
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Rural Community
Rural community is a natural phenomenon. It is present in 
every society of the world having distinct culture and 
pattern of social life. It is actually a product of natural free 
will of the people having extreme similarity in their 
objectives and ambitions of living. Agriculture is the main 
identity and element.
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Urban Community
Urban community is the opposite of rural community. The 
urban people lifestyle are highly impersonal with each other 
along high degree of complexity and heterogeneity in their 
living style and identities. It is actually a product of rational 
choice. 
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