Sociology 2152A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Blue-Collar Worker, Determinism, Squeegee Man
20 Apr 2016
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O religion to secular: home to work, small towns to big towns change this. Toennies believed that this is the way people always lived and he realized that this was all coming to an end due to the industrial revolution. The gesellschaft an association between people who have little interaction. According to toennies, this is an impersonal and bad way to live. Not much hope for cities thought that eventually gemeinschaft would become extinct and be replaced by gesellschaft. The inevitable emergence of gesellschaft will result in a loss of communal. Gemeinschaft and gesellschaft (1887) f. toennies: toennies grew up in a small town in germany and really liked it there. 1800"s, he noticed that rural society was rapidly changing with people moving to cities where living close to your family was no longer the norm. Religion and family were both very important to him. Saw that there was s hift taking place in society relationships.
