Gemeinschaft & Gesellschaft

Gemeinschaft German pronunciation: as well as Gesellschaft , loosely translated as "community as well as society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in grouping to categorize social relationships into two dichotomous sociological style which define each other. Max Weber, a founding figure in sociology, also wrote extensively approximately the relationship between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Weber wrote in direct response to Tönnies.

Globalization

Eric Hobsbawm argued that, as globalization turns the entire planet into an increasingly remote classification of Gesellschaft, so too collective identity politics seeks for a fictitious remaking of the features of Gemeinschaft by artificially reforging business bonds and identities.

Fredric Jameson highlights the ambivalent envy felt by those constructed by Gesellschaft for remaining enclaves of Gemeinschaft, even as they inevitably corrode their existence.