Sociologists, in this view, developed concepts like society and community to provide a consolidating or overarching perspective which would counter the divisive, contradictory and individualistic tendencies of life in this period of emerging modernism. The founders of sociology were preoccupied with the analysis of industrialism and were engaged in creating a‘powerful vision or “image” of a society in the making’ (Kumar 1978) and,says Giddens (1971), the overwhelming interest of Marx, Durkheim and Weber was in the ‘delineation of the characteristic structure of modern capitalism as contrasted with prior forms of society’. Contemporary sociology has inherited this role and has ‘as its main focus the institutions of “advanced” or “industrialised” societies, and of the conditions of transformation of those institutions’(Giddens 1982).