In a small town in the Midwest, all of the children attend the same school and most of the community members attend the same church. Everyone in this community knows everyone else, and they have shared numerous experiences with one another. This community would be characterized by Ferdinand Tönnies with the term

A. organic solidarity.
B. Gemeinschaft.
C. mechanical solidarity.
D. Gesellschaft.


Answer: B

Sociology

You might also like to view...

Emile Durkheim never lived to see sociology acknowledged as a discipline in its own right

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Sociology

__________ occurs when laws attempt to legitimize differential racial treatment

Fill in the blank with correct word

Sociology

Fugita and O'Brian found that in 1985 most Japanese Americans only belonged to Japanese organizations

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

Sociology

. _____ is the assumption that human behavior is explained exclusively by social factors

a. Positivism b. Social determinism c. Value neutrality d. Sociological imagination

Sociology