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Sociologist Emile Durkheim stressed that people are the product of their social environment. He observed that rapid social change and a more specialized division of labor produce strains in society, which lead to a breakdown in traditional organization, values, and authority. Group of answer choices True False

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Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) was a French anthropologist, sociologist, and social scientist. According to him, social change normally takes place gradually, slowly. He observed that, when social change happens rapidly, it causes strain and breakdown. That leads to an increase in anomie, which is a sense of futility due to the sensation that social norms are weak, absent, or even conflicting.

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