If society feels that a law needs to be established, than society will establish it. I believe that this too, applies to our society. We dislike murder, so what do we do? We make murder illegal. The same thing applies to seemingly insignificant things, like traffic violations. Do we all like them? Not necessarily, but they are put into place to establish order because society needs order. Without traffic violations, car related deaths would skyrocket and roads would not be a safe place for people, which can't work because car is most people's primary means of transportation. The same applies to most other laws, but this can also prove to contradict itself because of what Marx’s theory states. Do rich people need tax breaks? No, society does not need rich people to have tax breaks, and actually society would likely benefit if the rich paid more taxes. So Durkheim’s theory, while true in certain aspects, is false in
If society feels that a law needs to be established, than society will establish it. I believe that this too, applies to our society. We dislike murder, so what do we do? We make murder illegal. The same thing applies to seemingly insignificant things, like traffic violations. Do we all like them? Not necessarily, but they are put into place to establish order because society needs order. Without traffic violations, car related deaths would skyrocket and roads would not be a safe place for people, which can't work because car is most people's primary means of transportation. The same applies to most other laws, but this can also prove to contradict itself because of what Marx’s theory states. Do rich people need tax breaks? No, society does not need rich people to have tax breaks, and actually society would likely benefit if the rich paid more taxes. So Durkheim’s theory, while true in certain aspects, is false in