1. According to Weber, the ideal types are solely cultural phenomena (historical products) in which continuity does not exist. Here, on the contrary, we proceed from the idea of continuity and because of this reject Weber's discontinuity of types but retain the construction of the idea of type itself.
2. The terms given to basic types is a question of contention, just as the dualist typologies of classical sociology; Tönnies' division between “Gemeinschaft” and “Gesellschaft”, that of Durkheim between “société mécanique” and “société organique”, that of Redfield between “folk society” and “urban society”, or the classifications of other authors based on the division between “rural” and “urban”, “non-industrialised” and “industrialised”, “nonliteral” and “literal”, “primitive” and “modern”, etc. We could also, as an example, proceed from the conceptual difference between the “classical village”, that is the “traditional”, and the “new village”, that is the “modern” one, or between the “autarchic” “isolated” village on the one hand and the village “integrated into the global society”, “urbanised” and “commercialised” village, on the other.
3. The traditional peasant is occupationally polyvalent and, in principle, capable of providing everything that he himself needs and not only satisfying his food needs. If, in the village, a certain preindustrial division between agriculture and manufacture exists, developing a rudimentary occupational specialisation, this does not disturb the homogeneity of the village as an area where only peasants live.
4. It is possible that all inhabitants of a village continue to work in agriculture while more or less no longer being peasants, but being quite simply specialised producers of food, equal in all ways with workers of other occupations. In addition, the developed village is included in a much more complicated division of labour, covering the surrounding rural agglomerations and towns, and, in general, the framework of the whole of society; it is in principle, therefore, possible that, in a certain village, only specialised agriculturalists live and that the way of life is completely transformed.
5. René König: Grundformen der Gesellschaft und die Gemeinde, Rowohlt, 1958, p. 109. The typologies of integration of social groups proposed by Werner, those of Landecker in their well known work entitled Types of Integration and their Measurement, as well as the experience gained in operational research on theoretical ideas and in their application based on the available Yugoslav statistical data could also be of use. Cf. Zdravko Mlinar, Henri Teune: Community Integration: Aggregative Data Assessment, Ljubljana, Institut za sociologijo in filozofijo, 1965.