Question

Describe the role of education in removing social disorganization.

Answer 1

Answer:

Life is a process of continuous adjustment and readjustment. The social organism is always undergoing a change necessitating adjustment of its different parts.

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When the various parts of society are properly adjusted, we have social order and a well organised society, but when they fail to adjust themselves to the changing conditions, the result is social disequilibrium or disorganisation leading to social problems.

Since social disorganisation puts the society out of gear, it has been an important subject of study in sociology. However, before we study social disorganisation, it would be fruitful to study social order as its study is helpful in understanding the nature of social disorganisation.

I. Social Order:

The problem of social order has been one of the major concerns of Sociological theory. The importance of social order in sociology can be ascertained due to the following reasons: (a) order is itself something positive and its opposites can be understood only with reference to it; (b) the functioning of human society requires order as a pre-condition; (c) the existence of social order cannot be taken for granted and (d) the analysis of the problem of order is helpful in understanding the nature of disorder in its various aspects.