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Gemeinschaft — community — refers to groupings based on a feeling of togetherness. Gesellschaft — society — on the other hand, refers to groups that are sustained by an instrumental goal. Gemeinschaft may by exemplified by a family or a neighborhood; Gesellschaft by a joint-stock company or a state.
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- Tönnies' Complete Workes (Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe, 24 vols., since 1998), ed. by Lars Clausen, Alexander Deichsel, Cornelius Bickel, Rolf Fechner, and Carsten Schlüter-Knauer; Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York
- Tönnies, F. (1887) Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft —, 2nd ed. 1912, translated in 1957 as Community and Society
- Tönnies, F. (1910) Thomas Hobbes, der Mann und der Denker
- Tönnies, F. (1922) Kritik der Öffentlichen Meinung —, 2nd ed. 2003; translated as On Public Opinion;
- Tönnies, F. (1924, 1926, 1929) Soziologische Studien und Kritiken — 3 volumes of papers
- Tönnies, F. (1931) Einführung in die Soziologie
- Tönnies, F. (1935) Geist der Neuzeit, 2nd ed. 1998;
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