... (Durkheim, 1895). One of these areas focuses on social rules. In school, it is imperative that children learn to interact with others with a fixed set of rules that include learning promptness, respect for authority, cooperation and sharing, and other such requirements. School can essentially be seen as a miniature society since it stresses that individuals follow rules of conduct so that ... immigrants living in the United States are actively being assimilated to American cultural beliefs and values. Thousands of immigrant children as well as adults in the United States today are learn...

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... -1883, explains capitalism and how inequality between groups stems from economic organization of society 4. Robert Merton: 1910-2003 functionalism where social practice has consequences not immediately apparent (manifest and latent functions) 5. Max Weber: 1864-1920 off of Marxism added that society had three basic dimensions: economical, political, and cultural (multidimensional) and that wars are fought because of ... reason and common sense. It plays the balancing act between the id and the superego, adapting the desires of the id to the social expectations of the superego. Social lea...

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