Practice question · Estimate
Estimate how many years separate the publication of Tönnies’s Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft from Max Weber’s death.
Estimate on a scale from 5 years (5) to 80 years (80).
Hints
- Both dates are given in this lesson; subtract one from the other.
- The book is 1887 and Weber died in 1920.
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33 (answers within ±4 count)
Why
About 33 years. The whole classical consolidation fits inside a single working life: a student who read Tönnies as a young man could have attended Weber’s funeral. That compression is worth remembering when the founders are presented as successive generations rather than as contemporaries who mostly ignored one another.
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