Now outfitted with a brilliant new opening essay by john samples the author of a recent full scale biographical work on toennies community and society is back in print a welcome reminder of the glorious past of german social science. His fame rests largely on his first book gemeinschaft und gesellschaft published in 1887 which went through seven editions in german and was published in english in 1957 as community and society according to tonnies social clubs and religious sects for example result from mutual sympathy habit or common belief these involve gemeinschaft gemeinschaft like social relationships. Corpus id 161591474 community and society gemeinschaft und gesellschaft inproceedingstnnies1959communityas titlecommunity and society gemeinschaft und gesellschaft authorferdinand tonnies and c loomis year1959 . Gemeinschaft community and gesellschaft society ian hughes a a major contribution to the discussion of community was made in the 1920s by ferdinand tonnies who used the german words . Gemeinschaft und gesellschaft by ferdinand tonnies 1963 harper row edition in english community society gemeinschaft und gesellschaft 1963 edition open library donate