Society can be referred to as a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. As a large congregation of people gather to form a society, it invites different cultures, religions, values and information unique to each individual to be saturated in the same place. The study of a society on how it functions is known as sociology. Sociology, that ‘came into being in the wake of the many changes to society wrought by the Industrial Revolution over the last few centuries’ (Macionis and Plummer, 2011), allows us to examine how different ideals shape people in their beliefs and practices over the course of time. In a recent newspaper article ‘Grieving widow finds solace in neighbours’ (Lee, 2016), it is an overview of Mrs Suparmi Foo’s life after the passing of her late husband, Mr Edward Foo. Mrs Foo struggles to stay in Singapore with her family, due to the violation of employment laws, was met with the help of her neighbours. This sociological essay will take a functionalist’s perspective to examine how a community would affect the well-being of an individual, specifically on Mrs Foo, in the society. Functionalism will be used to examine the article mentioned. Functionalism is the interpretation of ‘each part of society in terms of how it contributes to the stability of the whole society’. A community can be classified into two categories. The first being the ‘territorial and