Answer:
The community has five functions: production-distribution-consumption, socialization, social control, social participation, and mutual support. 1. Production, Distribution, consumption: The community provides its members with the means to make a living.
This may be agriculture, industry, or services.
2. Socialization: The community has means by which it instills its norms and values in its members. This may be tradition, modeling, and/or formal education.
3. Social Control: The community has the means to enforce adherence to community values. This may be group pressure to to conform and/or formal laws.
4. Social Participation: The community fulfills the need for companionship. This may occur in a neighborhood, church, business, or other group.
5. Mutual Support: The community enables its members to cooperate to accomplish tasks too large or too urgent to be handled by a single person. Supporting a community hospital with tax dollars and donations is an example of people cooperating to accomplish the task of health care.