Sociological Analysis: "Just as ancient people had above all need of a common faith to live by, we have need of justice" (Durkheim, 1984, p. 322).
Summary: This paper discusses Durkheim's evaluation in the context of social evolution. For early human societies, faith provided a basis of morality and the beginnings of a social order. The greatest and most pervasive social problem today is inequality, an issue that is central to sociological theory.
