SOC 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Émile Durkheim, Social Fact, Adobe After Effects
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Is interested in the rise of the modern society. Argues that the idea of individuality is a really modern thing that emerged with modern society. The collective comes first and somehow you get individuals out of it. Relationship between individualism and society: core of his thinking. Marx thinks the class is the primary unit of analysis, durkheim used groups of people (primitive societies, households ) as the examples. Major themes about society and the individual. It"s hard to have a tight knit communal life when everyone is different. Durkheim thinks that this is a good thing because societies are turning more efficient. Two names for the glue that holds different societies together: mechanical solidarity old societies, organic solidarity modern societies, he refers to (cid:343)solidarity(cid:344) as a basis for social cohesion. Individuals are the outcome of the society; not the beginning.
