SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Forces, Determiner
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Social forces, in order for societies to thrive, they need to meet conditions to hold together: emile durkheim(1858-1917, focus: All societies have the same needs to survive, regardless of history: mechanical solidarity. Small scale, relatively simple societies characterized by homogeneity; likened such societies to a stone. Complex societies characterized by differentiation, heterogeneity, likened to an organism which many organs which perform different functions. Held together by laws, contracts and markets(impersonal systems of exchange) Work together in a structure, need to work together to achieve a complete system: deterministic theory. Our behavior are determined by the needs of society(pre-determination) Rare in mechanical solidarity: people need to be in groups, cannot live alone. Ethnic groups: one way in which sub-societies can form to fill social functions and structures. Materialism: also deterministic(but different determiner, karl marx(1818-1913) Base: economy, how it is produced, structured, and how resources are obtained. Base(relations of production superstructure(customary practices, values, beliefs, types of social groups)
