A survey on the sociological theories of public order and security

This article interprets public order and security from a sociological perspective. The most important question for sociological thinkers is that how social order reproduces itself. However، each sociologist deals with this question from his or her point of view. The question of reproducing social order has macro and micro dimensions and sociologists، based on their point of view، represent different sociological schools. This article intends to cover these theories and schools in their totality. It should be noticed that this article doesnt cover all of the sociological theories completely، because such an article necessarily would be a superficial one. That’s why the author has to select among the present theories and schools. Sociology is a paradigmatic science، i. e. there is no predominant theory in sociology. Sociology is not a science with a single methodology and frame work and there are many competing theories in this field. Although these schools criticize each other very seriously، this permanent critic cannot turn one of these schools into a predominant one.