" By the end of that century, Europe saw an enormous shift as peasants left the countryside, cities expanded, and an industrial working class was formed.1 The German social theorist Ferdinand Tönnies described this as the shift from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft, or what is typically translated in English as “community” and “society.”2 "

― Francis Fukuyama , Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy