Rural and Urban places Flashcards
Rural
- Often associated with wholesome living, simplicity and getting back to nature
Urban
- Typified as hectic and stressful but more culturally sophisticated
Urban extreme
Gesellschaft
Rural extreme
Gemeinschaft
Dominant social relationships based on Kinship, locality and neighbourliness
Gemeinschaft - Sharing of responsibilities
Gesellschaft - Formal, limited responsibilities
Ordering of social institutions
Gemeinschaft - Family life, rural life
Gesellschaft - City life, cosmopolitan life
Characteristic forms of wealth
Gemeinschaft - Land
Gesselschaft - Money
Central institutions
Gemeinschaft - Family law, extended family groups, customs
Gesselschaft - The state, public opinion
Status role
Gemeinschaft - Everyone’s role is really integrated into the system
Gesselschaft - Relationships, based on personal achievement
Major characteristics of the gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
- Dominant social relationships based on Kinship, loyalty and neighbourliness
- Ordering of social institutions
- Characteristic forms of wealth
- Central institutions
- Status role