Tonnies' 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.

This extraordinary prescient work by Ferdinand Toennies was written in 1887 for a small coterie of scholars, and over the next fifty years continued to grow in importance and adherents. Its translator into English, Charles P. Loomis, well described it as a volume which pointed back into the Middle Ages and ahead into the future in its attempt to answer the questions: "What are we? Where are we? Whence did we come? Where are we going?" If the questions seem portentous in the extreme, the answers Toennies provides are modest and compelling. Every major field from sociology, to psychology, to...

Tonnies' 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.

The printed life's work of the founding father of German sociology is being made available in a complete edition for international teaching and research. This volume is the seventh of a projected 24-volume edition. The principal themes in the years 1905 and 1906 are the Schiller (+ 1805) Anniversary Year and political sociology, together with writings on criminality and punishment. In addition, Tonnies was moved to provide popular education with writings and analyses on the politicisation of Wilhelminian society.

The printed life work of a founder of German sociology is made accessible to international research and teaching through this complete edition. The Ferdinand Tonnies Gesamtausgabe / TG is projected at 24 volumes. In the 9th volume of the TG, monographs, writings and reviews by Ferdinand Tonnies are edited from the following areas: general political writings; writings on the World War I; statistical writings; sociological and national-economic writings; historical writings; philosophical writings; writings on the politics of economics and society; writings on the politics of culture and...

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In Custom, Ferdinand Tonnies illustrates the relationship of custom to various aspects of culture, such as religion, gender, and family. Tonnies argues that all social norms are evolved from a basic sense of order, which is largely derived from customs. As such, custom refers to the ideal, and the desirable, and it mediates subjective aspects of social life. Tonnies makes observations in Custom that are just as true today as when they were written over a century ago. The pivotal idea in Tonnies work is the observation that custom, like its individual counterpart habit, has three distinct...