Durkheim's Thesis On Social Solidarity

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Durkheim did a great deal of focusing in the subject matter of social solidarity, he was a subject matter of much more, but a lot of his study comes back to the focus of this subject matter of social solidarity. Durkheim, social solidarity you can easily say goes to serve as a synonym to normalcy within the state of what we call society, even though its absence is a deviation from that social pathology or normal state (Gofman, 2014, p. xx). This report is going to be examine Durkheim’s thesis when it comes to social solidarity and how it is brought to the society, also how it goes into the relationship amongst social solidarity and the division of labor. From what I have seen on Durkheim’s thesis on social solidarity it is based on his views …show more content…

Durkheim goes on to explain what the function is with in the division of labor, and with his outlook of it, he says it creates social cohesion. This becomes the industrial revolution Durkheim goes on to say; this comes to produce a lot of tension and turmoil. Durkheim resolved this problem by contradiction the developing of the notion of an anomie. Which is going to be usually translated as the normlessness, which we can break it down to mean as insufficient of the normative regulation. This is the periods of what is considered a rapid social change, individuals are going to experience what is seemed as alienation from the group goals and also the values within the group. Durkheim goes on to explain that this will start by losing sight of what their shared interests started as because of mutual dependence. The normative values are going to become very generalized at this point instead of personally …show more content…

Durkheim also believed that modern societies are going to develop a new way to build and reinforces social norms and also work with a shared sense of affiliation. Durkheim goes on to suggest that the social cohesion could be a result from action of occupations groups. Occupational groups could replace the normative functions that were once exercised by institutions such as religion, local community, and the family. Relations between the occupational groups would go on to be an economic, in this sense it would go on to work as one to reach agreements about the conditions of labor and

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