Ferdinand Tonnies (Toennies)

TÖnnies, Ferdinand - fĕrˈdēnänt tönˈyəs, 1855–1936, German sociologist and political scientist. He is noted for his analysis of the distinction between the older form of spontaneous community based on mutual aid and trust and the modern kind of society in which self-interest predominates.

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Community and Civil Society
by Ferdinand Tonnies, Jose Harris. 266 pgs.

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Tönnies' Community and Civil Society (first published in 1887 as Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft) is a classic of social and political theory, exploring the tension between close-knit "communities" and an emerging global market "society". It is a response to modernity, an exercise in social, political and moral science, and an unusual commentary on the inner character of "democratic socialism". This new translation and introduction make this important work much more readily accessible to student readers, and those interested in social and political theory and the history of European ideas.

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Acknowledgements

General Introduction

Chronology of Tönnies's Life and Career

A Note on the Texts and Further Reading

A Note on Translation

Glossary

Community and Civil Society

Tönnies's Preface to the First Edition, 1887

Book One: A General Classification of Key Ideas

The Argument

Section 1: The Theory of Gemeinschaft

Section 2: The Theory of Gesellschaft

Book Two: Natural Will and Rational

Section 1: The Forms of Human Will

Section 2: Explanation of the Dichotomy

Section 3: Practical Implications

Book Three: The Sociological Basis of Natural Law

Section 1: Definitions and Propositions

Section 2: The Natural Element in Law

Section 3: Inter-Related Forms of Will—commonwealth and State

Appendix: Conclusions and Future Prospects

Conclusions and Future Prospects

Index

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The Alienation of Modern Man: An Interpretation Based on Marx and Tonnies (Discussion of Ferdinand Tonnies begins on p. 64)
by Fritz Pappenheim. 189 pgs.

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Introduction

Chapter One: The Mood of Our Age: Awareness of Man's Alienation

Chapter Two: Technology and Alienation

Chapter Three: Politics and Alienation

Chapter Four: Social Structure and Alienation

Chapter Five: Retrospect and Outlook: Can Alienation Be Overcome?

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index of Names
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Reflexivity, Sociology and the Rural-Urban Distinction in Marx, Tonnies and Weber, in Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
by Kieran Bonner. 25 pgs.

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Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life ("Ferdinand Tonnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft" begins on p. 8)
by David A. Karp, Gregory P. Stone, William C. Yoels. 273 pgs.

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Tables

Preface to the Second Edition

Acknowledgments

I: Issues and Perspective in Urban Sociology

1: Classical Conceptions of Urban Life

NOTES

2: Classical Observations of Urban Life

NOTES

II: Experiencing City Life

3: The Rediscovery of Community

NOTES

4: The Social Organization of Everyday City Life

NOTES

5: Lifestyle Diversity and Urban Tolerance

6: Women in Cities: The Absence of a Presence

III: Urban Institutions and Social Change

7: Power, Politics, and Problems

8: Sports and Urban Life

9: Urbanism, Suburbanism, and Cultural Change

References

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Handbook of Moral Behavior and Development, Vol. 1: Theory (Chap. 12 "In a Gemeinschaft Voice: The Cross-Cultural Expansion of Moral Development Theory")
by William M. Kurtines, Jacob L. Gewirtz. 466 pgs.

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Preface to Handbook

Editorial Advisory Board

Preface to Volume 1: Theory

Contributors' Biographies

Prologue Lawrence Kohlberg's Life and Work from the Vantage of a Long-Time Friend and Colleague: A Memoir

References

The Cognitive-Developmental Paradigm

References

A Few Words in Commemoration of Lawrence Kohlberg

The Kohlberg Legacy to Friends

Lawrence Kohlberg 1927-1987

Lawrence Kohlberg: The Vocation of a Moral Psychologist and Educator. Part I

References

Lawrence Kohlberg: The Vocation of a Moral Psychologist and Educator. Part II

1: Social Cognitive Theory of Moral Thought and Action

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2: Which Comes First, Morality or Identity?

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3: The Moral Development of Forgiveness

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4: Proximal Mechanisms Underlying the Acquisition of Moral Behavior Patterns

Introduction

Conclusion

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5: Toward an Integration of Kohlberg's and Hoffman's Theories of Morality

Concluding Comment: Internal Morality in Cross-Cultural and Historical Contexts

Acknowledgments

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6: Moral Theory and Culture: the Case of Gender

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

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7: Moral Development and Action from a Social Constructivist Perspective

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8: Empathy, Social Cognition, and Moral Action

Summary

References

9: Social and Moral Development from the Perspective of Psychosocial Theory

Conclusion

References

10: Analytic Hermeneutics and the Study of Morality in Action

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

11: Toward the Redevelopment of Kohlberg's Theory: Preserving Essential Structure, Removing Controversial Content

Concluding Remarks

References

Appendix

12: In a Gemeinschaft Voice: the Cross-Cultural Expansion of Moral Development Theory

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13: Psychological and Cultural Origins of Extreme Destructiveness and Extreme Altruism

References

Author Index

Subject Index
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American Social Structure: Historical Antecedents and Contemporary Analysis ("Tonnies: Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft as Interpretations of Medieval and Modern Society" begins on p. 229)
by Don Martindale. 521 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

1 The American Character

Selected Readings

Part I The Raw Materials Of American Society

2 The American Population

Selected Readings

3 American Natural Resources

Selected Readings

4 America's Cultural Resources

Selected Readings

Part Ii The Regional Community

5 The Community

Selected Readings

6 The Southern Regions Of the United States

Selected Bibliography

7 The Northern And Western Regíons Of the Uníted States

Selected Bibliography

Part Iii The Rural Community

8 Historical Forms of The Rural Community

Selected Bibliography

9 American Agriculture

Selected Bibliography

10 The Rural Community In the United States

Selected Bibliography

Part Iv The Urban Community

Ii Historical Forms of the City

Selected Bibliography

12 Nationalism, Capitalism, And the City

Selected Bibliography

13 The Urban Community In the United States

Selected Bibliography

Part V The Ethnic Community

14 The Nature and Forms Of the Ethnic Community

15 The Ethnic Community In the United States

Selected Bibliography

Part Vi The Status Community

16 The Principles Of Social Stratification

Selected Bibliography

17 The Status Community In the United States

Selected Bibliography

Summary and Conclusion

18 The Synthesis Of National Society

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Testing the Spatial and Communal Hypotheses, in Social Forces
by James A. Christenson. 9 pgs.

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Identity and Ideology: Sociocultural Theories of Schooling ("Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft" begins on p. 99)
by Stanley William Rothstein. 166 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

1: Sociocultural Theories of Schooling: An Introduction

2: The Role of the State

3: Reproduction: Symbolic Violence in Educational Systems

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION

4: Ideological State Apparatuses

5: The Social Relations of Production

6: The Social Relations of Educational Production

7: Separating Theory from Practice: A Scholastic Question

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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A History of Sociological Analysis ("Ferdinand Tonnies (1855-1935)" begins on p. 152)
by Tom Bottomore, Robert Nisbet. 717 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Sociological Thought in the Eighteenth Century

2: Theories of Progress, Development, Evolution

3: Conservatism

4: Marxism and Sociology

5: German Sociology in the Time of Max Weber

6: Emile Durkheim

7: Positivism and Its Critics

8: American Trends

9: Functionalism

10: Theories of Social Action

11: Exchange Theory

12: Interactionism

13: Phenomenology and Sociology

14: Structuralism

15: Social Stratification

16: Power and Authority

17: Sociological Analysis and Social Policy

Name Index

Subject Index
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Society, Culture, and Personality: Their Structure and Dynamics ("Theories of Tonnies, Scheler, Durkheim" begins on p. 112)
by Pitirim A. Sorokin. 768 pgs.

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Foreword

Preface

Key to Abbreviations

Part One: Sociology: Its Object, Method and Development

Chapter 1. Sociology as a Science

Chapter 2. Development of Sociology

Part Two: Structural Sociology

Chapter 3. Generic Structure of Sociocultural Phenomena

Part Three: Structure of the Social Universe

Chapter 4. Organized Systems of Interaction: Groups or Institutions

Chapter 5. Solidary, Antagonistic, and Mixed Systems of Interaction

Chapter 6. Factors of Solidarity and Antagonism

Chapter 7. the Roles of Similarity and Dissimilarity in Social Solidarity and Antagonism

Chapter 8. the Organized Group as a Collective Unity

Chapter 9. Classification of Organized Groups

Part Four: Social Differentiation and Stratification

Chapter 10. Differentiation of Human Population into Biosocial Groups

Chapter 11 Differentiation of Human Population into Sociocultural Groups

Chapter 12. Differentiation of Human Population into Sociocultural Groups (continued)

Chapter 13. Differentiation of Population into Multibonded Groups

Chapter 14. Differentiation of Population into Multibonded Groups (continued)

Charter 15. Social Stratification

Part Five: Structures of the Cultural and Personality Aspects of the Superorganic Universe

Chapter 17. Structure of the Cultural Universe

Chapter 18. the Actual Structure of the Total Culture of Individuals, Groups, and Areas.

Chapter 19. Sociocultural Structure of Personality

Chapter 20. the Structure of Sociocultural Space

Part Six: Dynamics of the Recurrent Social Processes

Chapter 21. How Groups Originate and Become Organized

Chapter 22. How Social Groups Maintain Their Identity and Continuity

Chapter 23. How Groups Acquire, Exchange, Distribute, and Lose Their Vehicles

Chapter 24. How Social Groups Recruit, Exchange, and Lose Their Members: General Horizontal Mobility

Chapter 25. the Differential Horizontal Mobility of Individuals

Chapter 26. How Groups Exchange, Test, Select, and Distribute Their Members (vertical Mobility)

Chapter 27. Two Modes of the Maintenance of Groups

Chapter 28. Fluctuation of the Size and Stratified Profile of the Groups

Chapter 29. Changes in Social Relationships

Chapter 30. Fluctuation of Government Regimentatton, Forms of Government, and Freedom

Chapter 31. Fluctuation of Orderly and Disorderly Change of Groups

Chapter 32. Fluctuation of Peace and War in Intergroup Relationships

Chapter 33. the Cause and Factors of War and Revolution

Chapter 34. Life-Span, Mortality. and Resurreaion of Groups

Part Seven: The Dynamics of Cultural Processes

Chapter 35. the Conception of Cultural Systems

Chapter 36. How Ideologlcal System Are Objectified

Chapter 37. Socialization of Objectified Systems and Congeries: Mobility of Cultural Phenomena

Chapter 38. Socialization of Objectified Systems and Congeries (continued)

Chapter 39. How Cultural Systems and Supersystems Grow and Decline

Chapter 40. Growth, Fluctuation, and Decline of Main Form of Fine Arts

Chapter 41. Growth, Fluctuation, and Decline of Main Systems of Truth, Cognition, and Knowledge

Chapter 42. Growth, Fluctuation, and Decline of Main Systems of Law, Ethics, and Types of Personality

Chapter 43. Modes of Change of Systems, "Civilizations," and Congeries

Chapter 44. Time-Sequence Uniformities in the Change of Systems

Chapter 45. Direction, Rhythm, Periodicity, and Tempo in Sociocultural Change

Chapter 46. Reasons for Sociocultural Change and Variably Recurrent Processes

Chapter 47. the Life Span, Death, and Resurrection O Cultural Systems

Chapter 48. Dynamics of Personality

Index of Subjects

Index of Names
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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Discussion of Ferdinand Tonnies begins on p. 139)
by Christopher Lasch. 591 pgs.

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The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

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Preface

1: Introduction: The Obsolescence of Left and Right

2: The Idea of Progress Reconsidered

3: Nostalgia: The Abdication of Memory

4: The Sociological Tradition and the Idea of Community

5: The Populist Campaign against "Improvement"

6: No Answer but an Echo: The World without Wonder

7: The Syndicalist Moment: Class Struggle and Workers' Control as the Moral Equivalent of Proprietorship and War

8: Work and Loyalty in the Social Thought of the "Progressive" Era

9: The Spiritual Discipline against Resentment

10: The Politics of the Civilized Minority

11: Right-Wing Populism and the Revolt against Liberalism

Bibliographical Essay

Index
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No Heavenly Delusion? A Comparative Study of Three Communal Movements (Discussion of Ferdinand Tonnies begins on p. 173)
by Michael Tyldesley. 211 pgs.

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No Heavenly Delusion? analyzes three movements of communal living, the Kibbutz, the Bruderhof and the Integrierte Gemeinde, all of which can trace their origins to the German Youth Movement of the first part of the twentieth century. The book looks at the alternative societies and economies the movements have created, their interactions with the wider world, and their redrawing of the boundaries of the public and private spheres of their members. The comparative approach taken allows a picture of dissimilarities and similarities to emerge that goes beyond merely obvious points of difference. Tyldesley places these movements in the context of intellectual trends in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and especially Germany, and enables the reader to evaluate their wider significance.

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Acknowledgements

Chronologies

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 1: The German Youth Movement

Notes

Chapter 2: Introducing the Movements

Notes

Chapter 3: ‘of One Mind’—the Bruderhof

Notes

Chapter 4: ‘exodus’ – the Integrierte Gemeinde

Notes

Chapter 5: Kehilatenyu—our Community—the Kibbutz

Notes

Chapter 6: Comparative Findings

Notes

Chapter 7: Against the Stream?

References

Index
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A Theory of Public Opinion (Discussion of Tonnies begins on p. 117)
by Francis Graham Wilson. 310 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

A PREFACE AND AN EXPLANATION

PART I THE HISTORICAL INQUIRY

Chapter 1 In Quest of a Public

Chapter 2 The Great Ideas: A Converging Stream

PART II THE MODERN INQUIRY

Chapter 4 The Emergence and Shaping Of the Study Of Public Opinion

Chapter 5 Controversy, Tradition, And Culture

Chapter 6 The Quality of Opinion

Chapter 7 Systematic Techniques

PART III GROUPS AND THE ORDERING OF OPINION

Chapter 8 Public Opinion And the Intellectuals

Chapter 9 The Middle Class

Chapter 10 The Proletarian Definition

PART IV ASSESSMENTS AND CONCLUSIONS

Chapter 11 The Situation Of the Common Man

Chapter 12 Theory for Tomorrow

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