Hosain Kachoian; Akbar Mohammadi
Abstract
The great revolutions, in a general interpretation and regardless of theoretical controversies, are known as great transformations and fundamental changes that destroy the previous social order and establish a new order. In response to the problem which how this change and transformation and reordering ...
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The great revolutions, in a general interpretation and regardless of theoretical controversies, are known as great transformations and fundamental changes that destroy the previous social order and establish a new order. In response to the problem which how this change and transformation and reordering manifests there exists different theories in social sciences. The primary formulations of how the new order is established in society were done by social contract theorists and then by political economists. Hobbes's question, however, is at the center of all investigations: How is it possible for people with different desires to form a society? How can different desires make a single embodiment possible? Sociology opposed with different forms of contractarianism which investigated social affairs by means of something outside the social logic; Sociology examined the question of social order within human collective relations; In response to this problem, Durkheim mentions the experience of society as a value connecting element, and Weber considers charisma as the valuer which unites people whether through submission or faith in it. Concepts such as holiness mass excitement; mass ebullition; charisma and mass ecstasy overlap in Durkheim and Webber, which provide the possibility of understanding major social changes through the combination of these concepts. Since revolutions are transformative and organizer events of social life, By analyzing the situation and nature of them, it is possible to answer the question of how social order is formed.
