Introduction

We all want a good society but what will be your answer if someone asks what good society is. It is no simple task to conceptualize what is good society. According to Etzioni, to define good society is to articulate certain values and the quest for values requires four things:

(a) local consensus;

(b) formal and procedural criteria;

(c) worldwide parallelism; and

(d) the sense that certain values are self evident. We recognize a society as bad society or a society is in need of change when there is a conflict between any two of the above four things. Alternatively, goodness can be defined in a certain religious sense and not in a sociological sense.

Religious people can easily classify societies into good and bad because they have a clear value framework but sociologists as objective viewers of society cannot do so easily.