SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Altruistic Suicide, Married People, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
19 Feb 2013
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This exists because it operates very much like a machine, very much in an automatic fashion. In the early societies there was a small population and a low division of labour. People do the same kind of work. Example job hunting for food, building shelter, teaching children. This makes people self-sufficient, they don"t really need other people. They can hunt their own food, teach their own children. Sum it up by saying people are similar and engage in common activities. Form of solidarity that exists in modern societies. Durkheim thought that modern societies are analogous to biological organisms. Biological organisms have different organs and these diff organs have to fulfill certain functions. One part of the body is heart which pumps the blood. The lungs allows the organism to breath. Just like diff organs, modern societies are made up of different part (institutions and organizations) If these stop fulfilling functions the organism is going to die.
