SOC 2700 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter 8: Solidarity, Anomie, Social Change

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

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Durkheim focused on society and its organization and development. Emile durkheim: organic isolated from all other social groups and is basically self-suf cient. Within these social groups, individuals live largely under identical circumstances, do identical work, and hold identical values. There is little division of labor, with only a few persons in the clan or village having specialized functions. Durkheim argued that to the extent that a society remains mechanical, crime is. Thus, socrates and jesus were declared criminals, as were mahatma gandhi and george washington. Eliminating the misbehavior would also eliminate the possibility of independent growth. In this sense, the child"s misbehavior is the price that must be paid for the possibility of personal development. Anomie as a pathological state in organic societies: but to the extent that a society is organic, the function of law is to regulate the interactions of the various parts of the whole.