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'''Social disintegration''' is the tendency for [[society]] to [[Decadence|decline]] or disintegrate over time, perhaps{{original research inline|date=June 2013}} due to the lapse or breakdown of traditional [[social support]] systems. In this context, "society" refers to the ''[[social order]]'' which maintains a society, rather than the political order that defines its boundaries. Society in the sociological sense is not the same as a [[country]]. |
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== Integration and disintegration == |
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The theoretical origins of this idea lie with [[Émile Durkheim]] and [[Ferdinand Tönnies]]. In the work of both researchers, one can see a division into two types of social integration, corresponding to two historical phases: |
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* First arrives a primitive integration, based on likeness and intimate interaction, which Durkheim called [[mechanical solidarity]] and Tönnies labelled ''[[Gemeinschaft]]'' |
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* Second arises a more complex and modern integration based on abstracted interdependence, known as [[organic solidarity]] or ''[[Gesellschaft]]'' |
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== Debate == |
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Those who espouse social disintegration beliefs{{who|date=June 2013}} tend to doubt the integrative capacity of organic solidarity, claiming that if it is not based on primordial ties and relationships, it is fabricated. On the other hand, optimists{{which|date=June 2013}} might argue that new complex forms of integration can emerge, for example through new communal forms of [[identity formation]] or through [[economic interdependence]]. There is also social disintegration that is attributable to [[economic integration]].<ref> |
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{{cite book |
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| last = Munck |
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| first = Ronaldo |
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| authorlink = Ronaldo Munck |
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| title = Globalization And Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective |
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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ySl1zBVmeDoC |
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| accessdate = 2013-06-27 |
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| year = 2005 |
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| publisher = [[Kumarian Press]] |
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| isbn = 9781565491922 |
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| page = 41 |
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| quote = It is an apparent paradox of globalization that the increasing global economic integration that it creates leads more to social disintegration rather than to social integration. Economic organizations become more 'disembedded' from social relations and the welfare safety nets that once prevented social disintegration become less effective or token only. This is similar to the process [[Polanyi]] described for the [[Industrial Revolution]] that led to 'an avalanche of social dislocation.... This catastrophe was the accompaniment of a vast movement of economic improvement' (Polyani 1957, 40). |
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}} |
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</ref>) |
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==See also== |
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{{Portal|Society}} |
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* [[Anomie]] |
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* [[Dysfunctional family]] |
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* [[Social cohesion]] |
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* [[Social contract]] |
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* [[Social solidarity]] |
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* [[Societal collapse]] |
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* ''[[The Decline of the West]]'' by [[Oswald Spengler]] |
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* [[Urban decay]] |
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== Footnotes == |
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{{reflist}} |
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==References== |
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* {{cite book |
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| last = Tainter |
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| first = Joseph |
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| authorlink = Joseph Tainter |
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| title = The Collapse of Complex Societies |
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| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=YdW5wSPJXIoC |
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| accessdate = 2013-06-27 |
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| series = New Studies in Archaeology |
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| origyear = 1988 |
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| year = 1990 |
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| publisher = Cambridge University Press |
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| isbn = 9780521386739 |
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}} |
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[[Category:Sociological terminology]] |
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[[Category:Community]] |
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