Sociology is the social human behavior study; it includes the studies, which belongs from the institutions, organizations, birth and human development society.
Emile Durkheim was one of the best sociologists in the world. His powers and prestige was at the peek, around 100 years ago. In 1890's, he gets the success through its three important works, the rules of sociological method, suicide lay behind him, the division of labour in the society.
This essay will tell us about the sociological views of Durkheim. We will also analyze the two sociological theories, which are presented by the Durkheim, the anomie and the organic solidarity. In this essay, we will compare the two theories of Durkheim with each other and also overview what other sociologists thinks and are they agree with Durkheim or not.
Durkheim conceptualized the phenomenon of anomie in an effective manner. He also gives the examples on deviance, social solidarity and crime, for just to make clear about his terms. Durkheim and anomie philosophy created a product of social change, which results in the loss of social consistency (Hayward, 2006).
According to Merton's (sociologist) sociology views, there is a constant flux in the society, there is also a difference between anomie and anomie strain, there is also a difference between the individual responses and the social structures, modes of adaptation, divide loosely between deviance and conformity.
Discussion
In 1893, the division of labour in the society; the term of anomie is conceptualised by Emile Durkheim. He discussed the subject of social solidarity clearly in this dissertation. He also holds the fact that all members are a society product and bound with by societal bonds within the society. Durkheim shifts from Bordeaux to the capital to take up a position in the education of science at the Sorbonne.
The term anomie, which was use by Durkheim, describes the lacking of social cohesion. According to Durkheim, the smudging of societal bonds which causes members of any society to get detached with the regulatory constraints of the society which controls and governs their aspirations and behaviours, which will leave them with no proper guidelines to aspire or to act resulting in anomie (Merton, 1957).
The term anomie is used by the Durkheim to describe the condition of the society where deregulatyion was occurring. This meant that rules on how people ought to bvehave with each other were breaking down and thus people usually do not know what to expect from other members of the society. Anomie, in a simple definition, is a society where customs (exoecting behaviors) are confused and uncertain or not present. The effects of social change was preoccupied by the Durkheim. He explains the concept of anomie and made it easy for the readers to understand what message Durkheim wants to convey its readers.
He act as positivist; he did not showed any interest in the study of individual's subjective sense, but he had aim in identifying and studying different social facts. Like gravity, some of the forces are invisible as their visible effects ...