Gemeinschaft

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Gemeinschaft

A German word translated roughly as community. It is used sometimes to describe an economy or society marked by strong personal relationships and moderate division of labor. For example, all members of a family may work together on a farm. While each family member may have his/her specialty, everyone can perform everyone else's job if need be. Feudal and idealistic socialist societies are examples of Gemeinschaft economies.

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In Chapter 7, Cahnman argues that Weber and Toennies' convergences were more important than Weber's reputed "distant politeness" regarding the latter's concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (p.

Though Cahnman complains that Toennies' Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are often confounded with Durkheim's mechanical and organic solidarity, he argues in Chapter 8 that the two theorists' points of departure and images of society were actually quite different.