CRM 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anomie, Social Forces
25 Dec 2015
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19th century france was an age of great turmoil generated by the wake of the french revolution of 1789 and by the rapid industrialization of french society. The processes of social change are part of the development from the more primitive. Mechanical form of society into the more advanced organic form: mechanical form: each social group in society is relatively isolated from all other social groups, and is self-sufficient. Individuals live largely under identical circumstances, do identical work, and hold identical values. Solidarity is based on the uniformity of its members. Solidarity is based on the diversity of the functions of the parts of the society. Law functions to regulate the interactions of the various parts of society and provides restitution in cases of wrongful transactions. He saw all societies as being in some stage or progression between the two structures, with no society being totally one or the other.
