Community and Society

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Transaction Publishers - 298 pages
 

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Page 14 - By primary groups I mean those characterized by intimate faceto-face association and cooperation. They are primary in several senses, but chiefly in that they are fundamental in forming the social nature and ideals of the individual.
Page 19 - ... of objects in the external situation and of other human individuals, making use of these expectations as "conditions
Page 33 - ... and organic life — this is the essential characteristic of the Gemeinschaft (community); or as imaginary and mechanical structure — this is the concept of Gesellschaft (society). Through the application of these two terms we shall see that the chosen expressions are rooted in their synonymous use in the German language.
Page 37 - Theory of Gemeinschaft 1 . Embryo or Emergent Forms IN ACCORDANCE with the preliminary explanations, the theory of Gemeinschaft starts from the assumption of perfect unity of human wills as an original or natural condition which is preserved in spite of actual separation. This natural condition is found in manifold forms because of dependence on the nature of the relationship between individuals who are differently conditioned. The common root of this natural condition is...

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