The theory of <i>Gemeinschaft</i>

Tönnies, Ferdinand; Harris, Jose; Hollis, Margaret

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511816260.010

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“…Most portrayals of the community lost tradition associate its origins with the writings in the late 1800s of Tonnies (1963), who used the term Gemeinschaft to characterize the cohesive nature of life found among preindustrial societies and Gesellschaft to describe the opposite conditions within communities of industrialized societies. Tonnies characterizes Gemeinschaft society as small, isolated, homogeneous communities in which the fundamental building blocks are common goals and common backgrounds.…”

Section: Previous Theorizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Lost or Transformed? Urbanization and Social Ties

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Guest

2003

City & Community

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Sociological theorists have generally emphasized the destructive effects of urbanization on social ties through the community lost perspective. A counterview, which we call the community transformed, has begun to emerge on the basis of other theorizing and empirical research. Yet the relationship of urbanization to social ties is still not well understood. In this article, we explore the total number of social ties, the number of kin and nonkin ties, the density or interconnection, and frequency of contact between ties among individuals residing within various U.S. settlement types. The results indicate that urbanization especially encourages the segmentation of social ties by discouraging density or interconnectedness. In addition, urbanization does have noteworthy effects in encouraging exclusively nonkin ties, which are presumably highly voluntaristic. Of the three definitions of urbanization that are tested, we find that metropolitanization is the most efficacious for understanding variations in social ties, especially exclusively nonkin ties.

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Section: Previous Theorizingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Lost or Transformed? Urbanization and Social Ties

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2003

City & Community

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“…Distinctive features of modernity are: within the political spherea democratic, constitutional state; within the sphere of nation-buildinga transition to a national government; within the spheres of science and educationa formation of autonomous studies; and within the economic spherea transition to capitalism. Many theorists wrote about the differences and interactions within the premodern (preindustrial) and modern societies in the nineteenth century (Tönnies, 1887;Spencer, 1873;Durkheim, 1893;Comte, 1853). Changes in the sphere of religion are of particular significance: modernity is considered to have came into being because people had taken the world out of God's hands, as it were, while still providing possible manifestations of enchantment in the form of contingent meaning.…”

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“…Fundamental contributions to the formation of scientific concepts explaining the macroprocess of modernization, i.e., the transition from traditional to modern society (Comte, 1853;Spencer, 1873;Weber, 1905;Durkheim, 1893;Tönnies, 1887;Cooley, 1918;Maine, 1861). Fundamental contributions to the formation of scientific concepts explaining the macroprocess of modernization, i.e., the transition from traditional to modern society (Comte, 1853;Spencer, 1873;Weber, 1905;Durkheim, 1893;Tönnies, 1887;Cooley, 1918;Maine, 1861).…”

Section: The History Of the Study Of Modernizationmentioning

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Modernization, Sociological Theories of

Gavrov

Klyukanov²

2015

International Encyclopedia of the Social &Amp; Behavioral Sciences

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“…La cuestión territorial se resalta como factor explicativo, ya que, como consecuencia de los procesos de colonización, la reserva de Cristianía es la tercera más pequeña de toda la nación 23 . Las diferencias en el acceso a la educación que reporta la literatura como una de las variables mas relacionadas con la fecundidad, y que presenta diferencias frente a los demás grupos étnicos de Antioquia.…”

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Determinantes próximos de la fecundidad: comportamiento reproductivo de las indígenas Chamibida de Antioquia, Colombia

Arias-Valencia

2005

Cad. Saúde Pública

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El objetivo de este artículo es caracterizar el calendario reproductivo en las Chamibida en el Departamento de Antioquia, Colombia. Este es un estudio sociodemográfico realizado en el año 2000 con la técnica de historia reproductiva. Se visitaron todas las 234 viviendas de la Reserva Indígena de Cristianía para obtener 253 historias reproductivas correspondientes a 83,1% de las mujeres de 15 a 49 años. El comportamiento reproductivo se caracteriza por una entrada a la unión a los 17,8 años en promedio; intervalos intergenésicos cortos en 69,0%, con una tasa de fecundidad ajustada de 5,12 hijos. Este patrón reproductivo es diferente frente a las demás etnias y subgrupos de Antioquia. Como explicación se destaca que de las mujeres chamibida conocen y aceptan la planificación familiar occidental y, tienen mayor acceso a la escolaridad formal. Las políticas actuales están lejos de ser apropiadas, en tanto pasan por alto la especificidad de estos grupos étnicos.

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The theory of Gemeinschaft

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Community Lost or Transformed? Urbanization and Social Ties

Community Lost or Transformed? Urbanization and Social Ties

Modernization, Sociological Theories of

Determinantes próximos de la fecundidad: comportamiento reproductivo de las indígenas Chamibida de Antioquia, Colombia

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