 The distinction between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft was a large part of the discussion and debate about what constitutes community, among heavily influenced social theorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century such as Georg Simmel, Émile Durkheim and Max Weber.The concepts "Gemeinschaft" and "Gesellschaft" were also used by Max Weber in "Economy and Society", which was first published in 1921.Weber wrote in direct response to Tönnies, and argued that "Gemeinschaft" is rooted in a "subjective feeling" that may be "affectual or traditional".