Definitions For Gemeinschaft

Noun

GEMEINSCHAFT (plural s or gemeinschaften) An association or group of individuals sharing common beliefs, attitudes, and tastes; a fellowship. (sociology) A society or group characterized by a strong sense of common identity, personal relationships, and attachments to various concerns.

Quotations

{{quote-journal, en, passage={{...}} saying that bureaucracy was the "old gesellschaft" that went with modernism, while today a "deep Jungian atavism" among young high techies for a clean environment, close family ties, and healthy communities is creating a "new gemeinschaft" that will require a "new gesellschaft, gesellschaft"., author=Morton Kondracke, title=Neo-Politics, work=New Republic, volume=205, issue=22, pages=18–20, date=November 25, 1991}} {{quote-journal, en, passage=A consensus has gradually been formed among the people of Taiwan that we are "all in the same boat" and that Taiwan is a gemeinschaft, or community., title=Relations across the Taiwan Strait, work=Asian Affairs, volume=26, issue=2, page=93, month=Summer, year=1999}} {{quote-journal, en, passage=Societies may be characterized along a continuum of a G1 (gemeinschaft or rural) to G2 (gesellschaft, gesellschaft or urban)., author=Marcel Fredericks; Steven I. Miller; Jeff A. Odiet; Janet P. Fredericks, title=Toward an Understanding of Cellular Sociologoy and Its Relationship to Cellular Biology, work=Education, volume=124, issue=2, pages=237–256, month=Winter, year=2003}}

Alternative forms

{{alt, en, Gemeinschaft}}

Etymology

From {{bor, en, de, Gemeinschaft, , community}}, equivalent to {{suffix, de, gemein, t1=common, schaft, t2=-ship, nocat=1}}. More at mean, -ship. Compare to {{cog, en, Gesellschaft, gesellschaft, }}.