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E 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. 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 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. Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft are german words that mean community and society respectively introduced in classical social theory they are used to discuss the different kinds of social ties that exist in small rural traditional societies versus large scale modern industrial ones gemeinschaft and gesellschaft in sociology