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I need to write a paper comparing and contrasting the work of Marx and Durkheim concerning the following two questions: What is social change? How does social change occur?' (writes A from the USA)
Try this as a very quick outline? You'll be able to flesh this out with sustained discussion of Marx and Durkheim, based on some excellent introductory text like one of Ritzer's
In brief, the issue here turns on whether major social change is gradual and evolutionary or violent and revolutionary. Durkheim is closer to the former, Marx believed in the latter. Of course, there could be a difference of opinion about what counts as major social changes as well -- it is not always easy to tell, of course, especially at the time. Has the Net brought about major social change, for example? Will it? What about the trends some people call 'postmodernism' and others 'late modernity'? Partly this debate also turns on whether major social change is occurring as a result of the conditions called......

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