SOC 3536 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3536
• Professor: Jean- Paul Mbuya Mutombo

Document Summary

The more a society modernizes, the more people are segregated, individual. Can we take division of work like a social phenomenon. Motivation of work is modernised, way of thinking. Industralism ot only economic, but also social (because it"s a synonym of (cid:498)individualism(cid:499) Main question of durkheim: what is the function of (cid:498)division du travail(cid:499: to answer this, he came up with (cid:498)steps(cid:499) First he defined (cid:498)function(cid:499: defined by the (cid:498)need(cid:499). Because there was a need for them. (this is the definition that. How rules contribute to level of integration. Mechanique, you don"t have a choice to obey or not. After comparing a modern and traditional society, he found that cities are individualistic. So instead division of work -> solidarit organique.