![]() ![]() Hence every society, no matter how simple or complex, must differentiate persons in terms of both prestige and esteem, and must therefore possess a certain amount of institutionalized inequality” (Davis and Moore 1945:243). ![]() Social inequality is thus an unconsciously evolved device by which societies insure that the most important positions are conscientiously filled by the most qualified persons. “If the rights and perquisites of different positions in a society must be unequal, then the society must be stratified, because that is precisely what stratification means.The more numerous and strong these collective states are, the more strongly integrated is the religious community, and the greater its preservative value” (Durkheim 2004:74). What constitutes this society is the existence of a certain number of beliefs and practices common to all the faithful which are traditional and therefore obligatory. ![]() “If religion protects man against the desire to kill himself, it is not because it preaches respect for his person based on arguments sui generis, but because it is a society.“If one wants to change society, one needs to understand the logic of how it operates” (Babbie 2011:62).The scientific study of these social interactions and of social organization is called sociology” (Hughes and Kroehler 2008:3). What we think, how we feel, and what we say and do all are shaped by our interactions with other people. We are born into a social environment we fully develop in to human beings in a social environment and we live our lives in a social environment. “A social fact is every way of acting, whether fixed or not, which is capable of exercising an external constraint on the individual or, which is general throughout a given society, whilst having an existence of its own, independent of its individual manifestations” (Durkheim 2004:50).Society and culture are interdependent neither could exist without the other” (Kendall 2006:42). “Whereas a society is composed of people, a culture is composed of ideas, behavior, and material possessions. ![]()
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