Communities and Societies in Movement

The 2026 Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association will focus on current social developments that affect and are perpetuated by communities and individuals, revisiting a classical sociological perspective: how to understand the opposition between communities and societies defined by Tönnies (1887) and revisited by Max Weber (1921) more than one century ago. What are the theories, methodologies and tools we have developed to categorize social relations today?