20. One of the following statements below is untrue regarding the terms gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, organic solidarity, and mechanical solidarity.  Which one is false?     Where gemeinschaft is more aligned with mechanical solidarity, gesellschaft is more aligned with organic solidarity.   An example of gemeinschaft would be more communal and less competitive type societies.   Mechanical Solidarity speaks to the solidarity within Industrial and especially Post-Industrial societies, hence the word "mechanical".  Organic solidarity is seen more in those agriculture and ranching-based societies of the world, hence the word "organic".   Organic Solidarity's hope of a recognition of interdependence among much specialization in society is negatively impacted by the reality of things like anomie, disenchantment, and cultural lag within modern societies.

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20. One of the following statements below is untrue regarding the terms gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, organic solidarity, and mechanical solidarity.  Which one is false?

 
 

Where gemeinschaft is more aligned with mechanical solidarity, gesellschaft is more aligned with organic solidarity.

 

An example of gemeinschaft would be more communal and less competitive type societies.

 

Mechanical Solidarity speaks to the solidarity within Industrial and especially Post-Industrial societies, hence the word "mechanical".  Organic solidarity is seen more in those agriculture and ranching-based societies of the world, hence the word "organic".

 

Organic Solidarity's hope of a recognition of interdependence among much specialization in society is negatively impacted by the reality of things like anomie, disenchantment, and cultural lag within modern societies.

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