Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Fact, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Social facts & social order: the legacy of durkheim. E. durkheim"s early influences: comte & spencer. The division of labor in society: integration (sense of belonging), collective conscience, mechanical & organic solidarity, repressive & restitutive law. The rules of sociological method: social facts, material & non-material. E. durkheim (1858-1917): founder of modern sociology. Product of his own context: defeat of france in franco-prussian war (1870) Jewish, from a family of rabbis but became an atheist. Worked as a university professor in well-known universities. Involved politically & interested in socialism as a system in which moral principles of society must be discovered through scientific sociology. Concept of integration: inclusion of all individuals in society regardless of their differences to maintain strong social cohesion & social order. Focused on sociology as the scientific study of all features in society that would enable a well-integrated, cohesive society.