Rural and Urban places Flashcards
1
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Rural
A
- Often associated with wholesome living, simplicity and getting back to nature
2
Q
Urban
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- Typified as hectic and stressful but more culturally sophisticated
3
Q
Urban extreme
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Gesellschaft
4
Q
Rural extreme
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Gemeinschaft
5
Q
Dominant social relationships based on Kinship, locality and neighbourliness
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Gemeinschaft - Sharing of responsibilities
Gesellschaft - Formal, limited responsibilities
6
Q
Ordering of social institutions
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Gemeinschaft - Family life, rural life
Gesellschaft - City life, cosmopolitan life
7
Q
Characteristic forms of wealth
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Gemeinschaft - Land
Gesselschaft - Money
8
Q
Central institutions
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Gemeinschaft - Family law, extended family groups, customs
Gesselschaft - The state, public opinion
9
Q
Status role
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Gemeinschaft - Everyone’s role is really integrated into the system
Gesselschaft - Relationships, based on personal achievement
10
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Major characteristics of the gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
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- Dominant social relationships based on Kinship, loyalty and neighbourliness
- Ordering of social institutions
- Characteristic forms of wealth
- Central institutions
- Status role
