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• Ferdinand Tonnies He was a  significant contributor to sociological theory and field studies, best known for distinguishing between two types of social groups, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.
• Gemeinschaft

  •  Community
  • Refers to a group of individuals mainly characterized by a sense of common identity, close personal relationships, and an attachment to traditional and sentimental concerns
  • Emotions and sentiments drive social ties and interactions
  • Implicit rules
  • Rural, small-scale, homogeneous societies
  •  Achieve its equilibrium through morals, social control, and conformism
• Gesellschaft 

  • Society
  • Refers to a group of people mainly characterized by impersonal relations, formal organization, the absence of generally held or binding norms, and a detachment from traditional and sentimental concerns 
  • Rationality is the driving factor
  • Explicit rules
  • Large-scale, industrial, and cosmopolitan societies
  • Achieve its equilibrium through laws, police, tribunals and prisons
• Intrinsic 

  • Love, affection, respect
• Extrinsic 

  • Money, physical labor
• Blau’s concept of social exchange is limited to actions that are contingent, that depend, on rewarding reactions from others