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abstract according action activity animal association attain become belongs capitalist character characteristic commodity market common common law commonwealth Community and Society conceived concepts conscience conscience collective consciousness considered contract culture dependent derived desire domination elements Émile Durkheim equal essential exchange existence expression familistic feeling Ferdinand Tönnies folkways forces freedom Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft Gemeinschaft-like Gesell Gesellschaft-like habit human idea important individual intellectual knowledge labor labor power land living means memory ment mental merchant mind moral mutual natural law necessary norms object one's original partly person pleasure possession possible production profit purpose qualities rational reality reason relation represent result Roman law schaft sense sociology specific sphere Talcott Parsons tendencies theory things thinking thought tion Tönnies's town trade types unity University of Kiel usury vidual village volition wealth whole
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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...