a) The Structural Change Flashcards
When does it occur?
When there is a crisis of identity what WE Can call an objective ontological existential crisis when the traditional def of a given community IS not satisafavtory anymore, when there is social fragmentation = anomie
Anomie
Concept developed bybthe french sociologist Émile Durkheim in the 1890s
The first phase lead to..
Influential members of this given community to first try to solve this crisis, heal society, search for a New identity
And second to find the reason for this crisis, to sée the causes to this unease
Example in England
Awarness that old structures had become inadequate
Major actors, first prime movers = elite
Inventors of nationalism = members of thé New Tudor aristocracy who reached the top of the social ladder
= found inacceptable the traditional image of society in which social mobility was an anomaly = substitued a New image = nation