Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are sociological categories introduced by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies for two normal types of human association. (A normal type as coined by Tönnies's a purely conceptual tool to be built up logically, whereas an ideal type, as coined by Max Weber,'s a concept formed by accentuating main elements of a historic/social change.) Tönnies' concepts of both Gemeinscha “Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft” (1887). Seven more German edition… (More on Gemeinschaft)