List and Define Tonnies's Two Types of Community Extremes and Durkheim's

question 75

Essay

List and define Tonnies's two types of community extremes and Durkheim's two types of social bonds in communities. Imagine that you have been asked to prepare a lecture on the similarities and differences between the two ways of describing communities. What similarities and differences will you discuss? How will you explain the interrelatedness among all four concepts (the two community extremes and two social bonds)?

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