SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Fact, Barter
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Urbanization, communication, and economic change: he talks about density of the human population. This is the specific conditions in which the division of labor arises: the human density of the population is what causes the division of labor, human density increases and it refers to the interactions between the individuals. What causes human density: urbanization, communication, economic change, new needs emerge (from the struggle and need for more resources); the bonds between the people, when the human density increases, they engage in the struggle/need for resources. If this continues it will lead to displacement, immigration, pushing people out of the country, colonization, genocide and suicide: adam smith: begins with individuals. The division of labor varies in societies become regularly denser and generally more voluminous(cid:499) (cid:4666)(cid:891)(cid:888)(cid:4667) individual"s propensity to truck, barter and exchange. Smith starts with human nature and the individual. In the dl book 3: he comes to observe the reality in book three.
