SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Disorganization Theory
8 Dec 2014
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Malthus vs marx: malthus argued that population would grow exponentially while food supplies would only grow arithmetically, marx argued that population was dependent upon the needs of capitalism. It facilitated the growth of a reserve army of labour (capitalist societies will always have a certain number of people who are unemployed) which changed depending upon economic expansion and contraction. In the 1920s, the chicago school of sociology was intent on understanding the natural laws of social existence. Without such participation, knowledge is not experience but an uncertain commentary on experience: social disorganization theory was influenced by durkheim"s notions of mechanical and organic solidarity. Mechanical solidarity refers to people who feel connected to people (who are sanest) who do the same things as them. Same culture, clothes etc: organic solidarity refers to when everyone is doing something to contribute to the collective whole, these theorists were also influenced by dramatic social changes occurring in america:
