ABSTRACT
Modernization, it is useful to make explicit, entails a re-organization of society. A legitimate question, then, one with which Durkheim was concerned throughout his life, is how is a particular, more or less stable form of social organization possible. George Herbert Mead explained how linguistic gestures become significant symbols, which are mutually interpretable by the speaker and the spoken to, is invaluable in this process. End notes in The Social Construction of Reality and The Sacred Canopy contain very brief accounts of the Hegelian and Hegelian/Marxist origins of objectivated and objectified. The motivations and constraints that members share take the form of what Mead terms the generalized other, a set of guidelines that come to regulate the child's behavior. The world of human beings is made and remade without a pre-given template, and with no guarantee that, from generation to generation, errors will not occur.
