SOAN 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Edward Burnett Tylor, Animism, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

He begun to concern himself with the problems of socialism as early as 1883. He had an intimate knowledge of socialist literature and opposed socialism through his closest friends and put forward his theory of organic solidarity. His concern with solidarity was related to his fear of the social and political conflicts of his time. Simon and durkheim believed that the new conditions could lead to a hierarchal but nonetheless organic order of social peace and stability. Integration was to be achieved by instituting the appropriate moral ideas. They are the real cement of a society as society is above all a community of ideas. The role of theory is positive and a constructive matter. Philosophy had to be as well and not critical. Simon"s conception of society that led him to his own functional organic view. The conception of society is anticipated in simon"s law of progress.