The community as a social group, the community may be seen as consisting of people who are more than an aggregate of isolated individuals and who after interact with one another, have a shared culture, and find their contact with one another meaningful. It is along that the community must be considered as a social group. The community must also view as a social system. The social system view looks at the community as a relatively enclosed system of interaction centered in some locality. Collectors of small subsystem perform various community functions such as socialization of members, social control of the people living in the community, and mutual support among the residents.
This approach sees the community as a network if an interaction among individuals, groups, and institution. The community provides a context within which its member can pursue many, if not most, of the activities that occupy them in their daily lives.