2. Assmuptions About the Nature of Society
Order-Conflict Debate
This old debate is around approaches that characterize the stabilizing effects of social order, versus those approaches focused more on change. Now most people see both as embedded in each other.
Traditionally, the prominent sociologists of Durkheim, Weber, and Pareto were concerned with social order, while Marx was concerned with social change.
Dahrendorf sees the order-conflict debate centered around two camps, one emphasizing stability, integration, functional co-ordination, and consensus, and the other emphasizing change, conflict, disintegration, and coercion. In reality this dichotomy is more a continium.
Each of these opposite word-pairs is open to much interpretation, and each is not completely accurate in describing the debate and can cause misinterpretation.
The authors put forth another way of descibing this debate as "regulation" vs "radical change". Regulation theories explore socities unity and cohesiveness. Radical change theories emphasize structural conflict, domination, and structural contradiction. It often focuses on the deprivation of man and potential changes.
2. Assmuptions About the Nature of Society
Order-Conflict Debate
This old debate is around approaches that characterize the stabilizing effects of social order, versus those approaches focused more on change. Now most people see both as embedded in each other.
Traditionally, the prominent sociologists of Durkheim, Weber, and Pareto were concerned with social order, while Marx was concerned with social change.
Dahrendorf sees the order-conflict debate centered around two camps, one emphasizing stability, integration, functional co-ordination, and consensus, and the other emphasizing change, conflict, disintegration, and coercion. In reality this dichotomy is more a continium.
Each of these opposite word-pairs is open to much interpretation, and each is not completely accurate in describing the debate and can cause misinterpretation.
The authors put forth another way of descibing this debate as "regulation" vs "radical change". Regulation theories explore socities unity and cohesiveness. Radical change theories emphasize structural conflict, domination, and structural contradiction. It often focuses on the deprivation of man and potential changes.
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