gemeinschaft

• Gemeinschaft

From German Gemeinschaft (“community”), equivalent to gemein (“common”) +‎ -schaft (“-ship”). More at mean, -ship. Compare to English gesellschaft.

gemeinschaft (plural gemeinschafts or gemeinschaften)

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

• 1991 November 25, Morton Kondracke, “Neo-Politics”, in New Republic, volume 205, number 22, pages 18–20:

  […] 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".

• 1999 Summer, “Relations across the Taiwan Strait”, in Asian Affairs, volume 26, number 2, page 93:

  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.

• 2003 Winter, Marcel Fredericks; Steven I. Miller; Jeff A. Odiet; Janet P. Fredericks, “Toward an Understanding of Cellular Sociologoy and Its Relationship to Cellular Biology”, in Education, volume 124, number 2, pages 237–256:

  Societies may be characterized along a continuum of a G1 (gemeinschaft or rural) to G2 (gesellschaft or urban).