"Gemeinschaft (often translated as community) is an association in which individuals are oriented to the large association as much as, if not more than, to their own self interest. Furthermore, individuals in gemeinschaft are regulated by common mores, or beliefs about the appropriate behavior and responsibility of members of the association, to each other and to the association at large; associations are marked by “unity of will” (Tönnies, 22)."
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Ferdinand Tonnies’ Gemeinschaft is a sociological definition of community that is distinct from its conceptual partner Gesellschaft.
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