21. Thus through family stories is the social order announced, and preserved through them as well. 22. He called the rioters a threat to the social order. 23. The revolution foreshadowed an entirely new social order. 24. The old social order was gone forever. 25. His main concern was to understand social order and its maintenance as the older institutions of control were undermined. 26. Durkheim saw the social order, and the moral obligations it placed on individuals, as a barrier to the realisation of their basic and instinctive drives. 27. At the same time, he envisaged these innate and largely egoistic tendencies as threatening to the social order. 28. There is one final point regarding the changing forms of association which many of these early sociologists saw as characteristic of the new social order. 29. The close personal associations and relations based on respect and morality were, he argued, heavily based on a repressive social order. 30. In short, the slum had their own kinds of mutually agreed social order. |