SLGY 2253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 90-108: Melvin M. Webber, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Informal Social Control
29 Sep 2016
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Chapter five social ties and community in urban places. Gemeinschaft: social relationships that included neighbourliness and informal social control and that valued the needs of the group over the individual a sense of togetherness based on commonality, physical proximity and stability. In small villages or small towns, gemeinschaft relations predominated. Mechanical solidary: solidarity that developed out of common beliefs and sentiments within a group. the same homogenous, preindustrial society. Brought people together based on similarity in their daily labour and proximity of their daily lives. Ideal community: at the start of the twenty first century canadians were faced with complex societal changes. Gesellschaft: characterized as formal, impersonal and individualistic in nature a direct result of the transformation from a folk type society to a modern, urban, capitalist society. Due to complex division of labour, mechanical solidarity was in decline replaced by organic solidarity. Organic solidarity: favoured impersonal, bureaucratic control over informal support and individualistic freedom over community control.
