Modern society is continuously changing with differentiation, specialization, and reconstruction. The lack of new characteristic and pattern of collective consciousness which modem society needs, incurred a crisis like moral vacuum followed by a rapid...
Modern society is continuously changing with differentiation, specialization, and reconstruction. The lack of new characteristic and pattern of collective consciousness which modem society needs, incurred a crisis like moral vacuum followed by a rapidly structural changing of modern society.
Therefore this paper intends to examine closely the general concept of social structure to illuminate the structure of modern Korean society in the light of the structural characteristics of modern society, and to present a scheme for overcoming a moral crisis through the examination of the occurrence factor bringing about the moral crisis followed by the structural change of industrial society.
First, the general concept of social structure is divided into two points of microscopic and macroscopic views. The social structure can be described as the interaction pattern of human behavior that is expressed with the relationship among individuals because of different psychological and socilogical process in the light of miccoscopic points of view; in the other hand, it can be described as the total system of the organic relationship with institutional system, group, organization, and the commumity that is included with the relationship among each parts of the entire society in the macroscopic points of view.
Second, there are the diversity and the complex relationship of culture, society, economics, politics, and religious in the characteristics of modern society. There are also the differentiation, specialization, eqalization of skill, the increase of an administration position, and a clerical service activity. The structure of modern society is one of the processing structure which has the diversity of social class, unequal structure of economics, the deepness of power and the difference of income distribution, persuing the ideal of human being. There are four kinds of characteristics of economic growth, industrialism, industrial democracy, and the decline of ideology in the light of modern industrial society. We can point out that there are the characteristics of the conflict between foreign culture and a traditional cultrue, the difference of community and social class, the lack of resposibility about social problems, and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism.
Third, there are the changes of social structure, social class, family structure, community structure, mores and institution. In the Korean society of industrialization process, the aspect of change are the regional gap, increase of population, radical decrease of rural population, increase of urban laborer, increase of conceren and opportumity about education, increase of the influence of mass-communiction, housing problems of great city, the conflict of labor and mangement increase of juvenile delinquency, alienation of the old, the deepness of unequal opportunity environmental pollution, increase of social danger, in ferior of welfare facilities etc The above social structure brought on the moral crisis like those of confusion of value, loss of norm, social disorganization, weakness of finally function, psychological escape abroad, consciousness of renunication, phemomena of aliemation etc.
Fowrth, the educational plans for overcoming the moral crises are the following: ① the education for the realization of justice; ② the education for the happiness of human being; ③ the edcuation for the individual growth; ④ the education for the process of democracy.