Title: Critically assess the concepts used by Emile Durkheim in his analysis of the social changes caused by rapid industrialization and modernization.
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Distinguished himself from Marxist insistence on economic factor as the determinant of social change and Weber's famous view on the great influence of religion, Durkheim tries to explain social change by means of explaining the society itself apart from its individual members, through the analysis of the functional relationship between 'social facts'. By differentiating between social solidarity - one of the most important social fact that he is concerned with, Durkheim developed a series of
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Grint, K. (1998) The Sociology of Work, 2nd ed., Polity Press, Cambridge, the United Kingdom Haralambos, M. Holborn, M. (2000) Sociology, Themes and Perspectives 5th ed. England, Collins Educational Publisher, London, the United Kingdom Morrison, K. (2000) Marx Durkheim Weber, SAGE Publications Ltd., London, the United Kingdom Mulkay, M.J. (1971) Functionalism, exchange and theoretical strategy, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., London, the United Kingdom Observer Report: China's Industrialization to Take 20 Years: Academician, People's Daily, 28th Oct. 2002, Beijing, China