SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Totem, Collective Consciousness, Class Consciousness
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Organic order: economic order gives class consciousness. The fact that we have to produce things derives from behaviour and thought. Difference between weber & marx meaning we give to those things for weber. How we develop behaviours and when shaped by different factors. The nature of the relationship is the same. Intimate relationships: dyad: simplest form of relationship. Durkheim"s main interest; prominent in the division of labor in society. Carve out of an image of sociology psychology is the biggest competitor. Suicide how to take a psychological phenomenon into sociological analysis. Social integration / solidarity: key for durkheim to link an individual and society, type and degree of social integration is what connects us to society. Society as a section of organs: each part matters for a healthy balance of the whole, society"s brain" : collective consciousness. The norms or the set of beliefs that the majority of the population follows.
