Tonnies community and civil society

Tonnies: Community and Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Du kanske gillar. Ladda ned. Spara som favorit. Ferdinand Tonnies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft first published in is a classic of social and political theory, which explores the clash between small-scale neighbourhood-based 'communities' and large-scale competitive market 'societies'. Tonnies considers all aspects of life - political, economic, legal and family; art, religion and culture; the construction of 'selfhood' and 'personhood'; and modes of cognition, language and understanding. Often recognised as one of the founding texts of sociology, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft is also a highly significant contribution to European political thought and philosophy, with particular relevance to the legacies of Hobbes and Kant.

Loomis, pp. The German sociologist Ferdinand Tonnies was a major contributor to theory and field studies in sociology. Groups that form around essential will, in which membership is self-fulfilling, Tonnies called Gemeinschaft often translated as community. Groups in which membership was sustained by some instrumental goal or definite end he termed Gesellschaft often translated as society. Gemeinschaft was exemplified by the family or neighborhood; Gesellschaft, by the city or the state. Tonnies' major work, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft first published in , is available in English translation edited and translated by Charles P. Loomis as Community and Society