SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Protestant Work Ethic, Social Capital, Marxist Feminism
10 Apr 2013
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Emile durkheim argued that inequality is a natural and inevitable human condition that is not associated with social maladies, such as crime, unless there is also a breakdown of social norms or rules. This breakdown is called anomie argued it occurred in his own society as a result of rapid social changes accompanying modernization. In the mechanical form, each social group in society is relatively isolated from all other social groups and is basically self sufficient. Within these groups, individuals live largely under identical circumstances, do identical work and hold identical values (little division of labour) Organic society: the different segments of society depend on each other in a highly organized division of labour. Mechanical societies are characterized by the uniformity of the lives, work and beliefs of their members. All the uniformity that exists in a society is totality of social likeness = collective conscience .
