Previews the concepts of "community" & "society" as used by anthropologists. Following from Tonnies, we have:
1. Society / Gesselschaft (written laws, the state, civil society, nation, capitalism)
2. Community / Gemeinschaft (traditions, spoken mores, kinship and locality, reciprocity)
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Like all the conceptual tools we use in Anthropology, the community-society distinction illuminates and obscures, for example in relation to 'urban villages'. Nevertheless, Anthropologists have found the "community" idea useful to work with, esp. in relation to the Internet. We see this in relation to "online communities".Please see this Blog on : [ Ссылка ]
Important contributors include:
* Anderson, Benedict. 1992. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.
* Durkheim, E. (1933). The Division of Labor in Society (G. Simpson, Trans.). New York: The Free Press.
Tönnies, F. (1957). Community and Association (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft) (C. P. Loomis, Trans.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
* Weber, M. (1991). The Social Psychology of the World Religions. In H. H. Gerth & C. Wright Mills (Eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Great Britain: Routledge.
About me: I'm Nick Herriman, author of the books "Entangled State" and "Witch-hunt and Conspiracy". I lecture in Anthropology at La Trobe University. I am also the 'Audible Anthropologist' on iTunes.
About "25 Concepts in Anthropology": I preview what I think are the 25 most important concepts in socio-cultural anthropology. Each concept provides a unique insight into what it is to be human.
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