The four approaches to community sociology include: Typological, ecological, systems, and theory. They all have some influence on how we see the world today in a community based realm. The typological approach begins with the ideas of Tonnies. His foundation began with the terms Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Tonnies explains that there has been a transition in the world from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft. The rise in industrialization and social change identifies this transition. Tonnies unlike his …showed first 75 words of 1504 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1504 total…going on with consumption and everyday life. A weakness of this approach is that there are more capitalists in this world than we can count. These theorists focus on the larger picture and large influential corporations that run the economy. What about the small businesses that if they didn’t exist, many people would feel like nothing is pure anymore? Conflict theorists think change is good. This may make the world keep itself in check.