ABSTRACT
The advent of large-scale industrialization in Sagebrush produced massive changes in the area's way of life. Rules, mechanisms, and procedures which support and maintain formal organization are, in a sense, ways of trying to keep Gemeinschaft from making sentimental, informal, folksy assaults upon Gesellschaft; i.e., methods of treating people categorically are designed to control natural tendencies of people to interact personally. There are also rules, mechanisms, and procedures which support and maintain Gemeinschaft and which ward off the potential or actual impacts of Gesellschaft. Although Gesellschaft situations are heavily based upon outer structure, they still have elements of inner structure present. Inner structure concerns sentimental and traditional bonds and behavior, while outer structure consists of so-called infrastructure and other readily observed organizations and conduct. Inner and outer structure is used in mutually protective ways, largely through pretense. In both urban and rural communities, Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are interdependent and interrelated.
