DURKHEIM

• • Durkheim was deeply concerned with social and moral order of modern society, his work emphasiesed the importance of social norms, values and instituations in shaping individual behaviour
• • Durkheim argued that modern societies were charecterised by decline in traditional social bonds and rise of individualism (a state of normalessness and social disintegration)
• • Durkheim was a functionalist and functionalism is basic to his sociology