May I just say...

I hate old German sociologists. Especially Ferdinand Tönnies. You'd think he'd be able to give you a nice capsule-description of some fairly basic sociological concepts like Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, wouldn't you? You know, before he goes in and spends the rest of the book fleshing it out.

Nope. Apparently in the 1800s, it was the height of fashion to drag you through the entire book to explain two simple words. Bah.