Examples of organic solidarity in the following topics:
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- Mechanical solidarity is found in less structurally complex societies while organic solidarity emerges in industrialized societies.
- As part of his theory of the development of societies in, The Division of Labour in Society (1893), sociologist Emile Durkheim characterized two categories of societal solidarity: organic and mechanical.
- In a society exhibiting mechanical solidarity, its cohesion and integration comes from the homogeneity of individuals.
- Organic solidarity is social cohesion based upon the dependence individuals have on each other in more advanced societies.
- Give examples for societies held together by mechanical or organic solidarity
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- Mechanical and organic solidarity are concepts referring to different modes of establishing and maintaining social order and cohesion.
- Although individuals perform very different roles in an organization, and often have different values and interests, there is a cohesion that arises from the compartmentalization and specialization woven into "modern" life.
- Solidarity describes connections between individuals that allow them to form a cohesive social network.
- Durkheim described two forms of solidarity: mechanical and organic, roughly corresponding to smaller and larger societies.
- Apply Durkheim's concepts of mechanical and organic solidarity to groups in the real world
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- Following a socioevolutionary approach reminiscent of Comte, Durkheim described the evolution of society from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity.
- Thus, although modern society may undermine the traditional bonds of mechanical solidarity, it replaces them with the bonds of organic solidarity.
- Further, Durkheim argued, the organic solidarity of modern societies might have advantages over traditional mechanical solidarity.
- In modern societies, under organic solidarity, people are necessarily much more interdependent.
- In organic solidarity, the individual is considered vitally important, even sacred.
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- The bond between a lawyer and a criminal is an example of gesellschaft or organic solidarity; the two exist in the same society in a relationship based on interdependence, as the criminal provides income to the lawyer and the lawyer provides legal services to the criminal.
- The bond between a lawyer and a criminal is an example of gesellschaft or organic solidarity -- the two exist in the same society in a relationship based on interdependence, as the criminal provides income to the lawyer and the lawyer provides legal services to the criminal.
- Durkheim distinguished mechanical solidarity from organic solidarity, or a sense of community developed by the sense of interdependence that arises from specialization of work and complementary skills and interests between people.
- Under the parameters of organic solidarity, Tina and Amy feel like they belong to the same community because they perform different tasks and help one another.
- Diagram examples of geimeinschaft, gesellschaft, mechanical solidarity, and organic solidarity within your own community or communities, keeping in mind that these concepts cannot always be neatly separated
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- In his dissertation, Durkheim described how societies maintained social order based on two very different forms of solidarity (mechanical and organic), and analyzed the transition from more "primitive" societies to advanced industrial societies.
- Durkheim suggested that in a "primitive" society, mechanical solidarity, with people acting and thinking alike and sharing a collective or common conscience, allows social order to be maintained.
- Durkheim argued that in this type of society moral regulation was needed to maintain order (or organic solidarity).
- In the modern world, those specialists most preoccupied with theorizing about the division of labor are those involved in management and organization.
- Interpret Durkheim's division of labor theory in terms of mechanical and organic solidarity, as well as progression from primitive to advanced societies
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- According to Durkheim, an important component of social life was social solidarity, which can be understood as a sense of community.
- According to Durkheim, the types of social solidarity correlate with types of society.
- Durkheim introduced the terms "mechanical" and "organic solidarity" as part of his theory of the development of societies in The Division of Labour in Society (1893).
- Mechanical solidarity normally operates in "traditional" and small scale societies.
- Thus, organic solidarity is social cohesion based upon the dependence individuals have on each other in more advanced societies.
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- Durkheim believed that an important component of social life was social solidarity, which is understood as a sense of community.
- Durkheim believed there were two components that would alleviate the decreasing social solidarity in industrializing societies: organic solidarity and conscientious attempts to find camaraderie through one's place of employment.
- Whereas social solidarity was maintained in pre-industrial societies through a mechanistic sense of similarity and dependence along with communal religious affiliations, in industrialized societies, social solidarity would be maintained by the interdependence of specialists on one another.
- This would force a type of organic solidarity — organic in the sense that the parts were interdependent like the organs of an animal are interdependent for their survival.
- Thus, for Durkheim, the answer to the decrease in mechanistic solidarity and the increasing anomie was organic solidarity and solidarity pursued within one's specialty occupation.
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- Structural functionalism is a framework that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability.
- In this way, society is like an organism and each aspect of society (institutions, social constructs, etc.) is like an organ that works together to keep the whole functioning smoothly.
- Based on the metaphor above of an organism in which many parts function together to sustain the whole, Durkheim argued that complicated societies are held together by organic solidarity.
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- He sought to explain social stability through the concept of solidarity, and differentiated between the mechanical solidarity of primitive societies and the organic solidarity of complex modern societies.
- According to Durkheim, more primitive or traditional societies were held together by mechanical solidarity; members of society lived in relatively small and undifferentiated groups, where they shared strong family ties and performed similar daily tasks.
- Durkheim argued that modern industrial society would destroy the traditional mechanical solidarity that held primitive societies together.
- Instead, modern societies rely on organic solidarity; because of the extensive division of labor, members of society are forced to interact and exchange with one another to provide the things they need.
- In the functionalist perspective, societies are thought to function like organisms, with various social institutions working together like organs to maintain and reproduce them.
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- While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was nevertheless an overarching social schism.
- A structural functionalist approach emphasizes social solidarity, divided into organic and mechanical typologies, and stability in social structures.
- Conversely, being marked as deviant can actual bolster solidarity within the marked community, as members take pride and ownership in their stigmatized identity and create cohesive units of their own (for example, members of the LGBT community unifying around Pride).
- While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was an overarching social schism.