SSCI 2810U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Industrial Revolution, Human Behavior
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Sociology has an emphasis on social aspects of human behavior how societies are organized, structured emphasis on culture of group life and interaction between each various group. Social structural theories: look at crime from the vantage point on how society is organized crime is a product on how society is organized, disregard for biological or psychological variation. Emile durkheim: emile durkheim extremely influential within the context of modern structural perspectives on crime. Affected by a variety of revolutions american, french and industrial revolution. Wrote dissertation at university of paris first sociological dissertation at this university attempted to develop a model for societal development basis was economic and labour distribution. Argued that societies evolved from being mechanical/simplistic to organic and multilayered. Dissertation the division of labour in society . Mechanical societies members pretty much have the same functions and same daily routines as a result having these similar functions, is a uniformity of values collective conscience .
