SUMMARY: The famous Emile Durkheim was one of the most significant functionalists during the nineteenth century. Most of his scholarly work centered on one basic concept which dealt with what held society together. As a functionalist, Durkheim tried to argue that society is a social system consisting of various integrated parts, he called this Functional Interdependence or Organic Solidarity. This meant that our society is like a living organism with separate parts, each of these …showed first 75 words of 712 total…

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