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Now outfitted with a brilliant new opening essay by john samples the author of a recent full scale biographical work on toennies community and society is back in print a welcome reminder of the glorious past of german social science. Gemeinschaft german pronunciation gmainaft and gesellschaft gzelaft generally translated as community and society are categories which were used by the german sociologist ferdinand tonnies in order to categorize social ties into two dichotomous sociological types which define each other. Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft ideal types of social organizations that were systematically elaborated by german sociologist ferdinand tonnies in his influential work gemeinschaft und gesellschaft 1887 community and society. Tonnies feels that the community of gemeinschaft is followed by gesellschaft through a transition that is naturally occurring and absolute this evolution is one that is good and bad it is good in that progress occurs that allows for a higher quality of life but at the expense of the working class