Community, Society, and the Individual Pt2 Flashcards
Why is it hard to pinpoint what a society is?
Too complex and hard to define
Some traits of a society (4)
Impersonal
Exists at multiple scales
Contested
Unknowable
society and community according to Tonnies
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Define Gemeinschaft
traditional and community life
Define Gesellschaft
mass society and modern life
Communities have tended to shift to
Societies
Society is increasingly (4)
Urban
Multicultural
Legal / contractural
Surplus
Communication in societies tend to be more (4)
Impersonal
Formal
Perfunctory
Contrived and scripted
Some aspects of society’s coolness (3)
Lack of knowingness
Roles are evident
Most people are strangers
Society replaces community needs such as (3)
Material
Safety and security
Service
What’s an individual
A single person that exists in a community or society that isn’t self sufficient and has needs
Uniqueness in the individual exists (3)
as a characteristic of humanness
as a difference
as a inner reality
Individuals in communities tend to be (3)
Aligned beliefs and norms
Included or excluded
Have identities suppressed
the idea of us/them
Us is the community / society you are a part of and them is the others
What doe us/them entail
existentially necessary
internal sameness differentiates from them
has physical and conceptual boundaries
