SOC101 Chapter Notes -Wilbert E. Moore, Kingsley Davis, Friedrich Engels
15 Dec 2013
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Religion had a powerful bind in society. Jewish origin impacted on his beliefs of religion: modern society had lost its collective conscience from traditional social practices such as religious celebrations, gossiping, gift-giving, etc. Collective conscience", the binding glue of a community a shared code of morality. Collective effervescence" a shared feeling of delirious celebration, rather than actual spirituality: anomie state where people were no longer united by a single code of right and wrong. Togetherness of society diminishing due to individualism: saw the secularism in modern society. Sociology could not focus on social facts: there are variables of people"s values and goals, no actual social fact . Social stratification a part of social function: focus on how social structures within which power and struggle operate are possible, mechanical cohesion of the past v. organic cohesion of the present. Early societies were held together by mechanical cohesion.
