Title: Critically assess the concepts used by Emile Durkheim in his analysis of the social changes caused by rapid industrialization and modernization.
Date Submitted: 09/16/2000 14:01:49
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 8 pages (2107 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 8 pages (2107 words)
Distinguished himself from Marxist insistence on economic factor as the determinant of social change and Weber's famous view on the great influence of religion, Durkheim tries to explain social change by means of explaining the society itself apart from its individual members, through the analysis of the functional relationship between 'social facts'. By differentiating between social solidarity - one of the most important social fact that he is concerned with, Durkheim developed a series of …
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