SOCIOL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate, Collective Consciousness, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Fewer beliefs and values that everyone in society shares. We are increasingly dependent on others because division of labor. Division of labor is increasingly taking place of common consciousness as what holds society together in advanced stages of society. Division of labor requires us to become more individual. Humans roaming around, everyone farms, does everything themselves. Everyone has same beliefs; common consciousness is strong. Different tribes or clans that are all bound together under a single overarching identity. Ex: 12 tribes of israel, all bound together by common belief of god. Each part contributes to survival of organism as a whole. People divided into different jobs: doctors, teachers, lawyers, etc. Durkheim believes western europe is moving in this direction. Evolution of societies = society is single cell organism develops organs . The reason why there"s so much conflict and turmoil is because division of labor is forced rather than spontaneous.
