ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses an analysis of the role of industrialization in the social disturbances and disorders that it allegedly brings about. It endeavors to spell out more fully the considerations that have led scholars to regard industrialization as the agent of such social disturbances and disorders. The chapter reveals a confused and unsystematic picture of thought with regard to how industrialization brings about the conditions of social disturbance and disorder attributed to it. Industrialization is thought of as introducing an alien social arrangement that is contrary to what preindustrial people are accustomed to. Industrialization undermines traditional systems of norms and values. Many students see such social disorganization in a variety of conditions and happenings that catch attention in periods of early industrialization. Students who are inclined to regard early industrialization as an agent of social disorganization rarely endeavor to separate industrialization from these other kinds of factors and conditions that produce disorganization.
