... obviously deeply concerned about what he viewed as the soulless nature of urban life. Tonnies' ideas were also reflected in the work of Louis Wirth who wrote about urbanism in America in the1930s. He too was concerned about what he saw as the transience and shallowness of relationships. He felt that the mobile nature and breakneck pace of life in cities ... work of Raymond Williams, who writes of pre-industrial agricultural society thus: "The social order was as hard and brutal as anything later experienced this economy, even at peace, was an order of exploitation" (1985: 38/39). It is ...

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