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Write short note: Social disorganization.

  • UPSC 1995
  • Politics and Society

W. I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki (The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, 1918–20) defined social disorganisation as a decrease of the influence of existing social rules of behaviour upon individual members of the group. It is the condition in which norms, institutions and roles stop regulating conduct, so that a group can no longer…

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