Abstract
Rather than dealing with direct solutions to issues such as birth, ageing, disease, death, disablity, unemployment, discrimination, anxiety, isolation, abuse and etc., sociologists' main interest has been in making clear a social context which would resolve social needs. As individuals'needs are determined by a value system built into political, economical and cultural categories as social class, social group, social network, and regional community, they must find solutions to their needs by approaching the intermediary. Especially in Japan sociologists focus on the regional community as the intermediary between individuals and the established system, and discuss social needs and methods of resolve through a regional community basis such as in the case of community care or community organization. However, the activities of regional communities should be reconstructed on coping with the enlargement of territories and expansion of everyday-life activities and growing local administration.
