What Is Social Order

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ID2201849
AuthorsLawrence K Frank (corresponding author)
Year1944
Volume49
Issue5
Pages470-477
Publication date1944-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/219463
OpenAlexW1998122456
LanguageEN
Citations received9

Social order has long been conceived as an organization or mechanism which exists as a part of the cosmos and operates through large-scale forces acting at a distance. Social theory has taught man that he must learn to submit to these assumed forces and accept this cosmic organization as necessary to social order, while social research has attempted to measure these assumed forces. Recent studies of culture and personality indicate that social order is not given but historically developed ideas, beliefs, and patterns of conduct and of feeling which each culture has evolved as the guides to human conduct and the management of group activities. Moreover, recent studies indicate that social disorders and conflicts arise from the distorted personalites fostered by those cultural traditions. This newer conception of social order offers an escape from the defeatist beliefs so long accepted and suggests a reformulation of the tasks of social order and of the problems of social research

Business · Epistemology · Feeling · Mechanism (biology · Order (exchange · Personality · Political science · Scale (ratio · Social order · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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