Community and Society

In 1887 the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies published Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft, community and society. The following lines are from a later edition. Alles vertraute, heimliche, ausschließliche Zusammenleben (so finden wir) wird als Leben in Gemeinschaft verstanden. All trusted, private, exclusive living together, so we find, is understood as life in community. Gesellschaft ist die Öffentlichkeit, ist die Welt. Society is the public, it is the world. Man geht in die Gesellschaft wie in die Fremde. One goes into society as into a foreign land.

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