Examples of social solidarity in the following topics:
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- In modern society, collective effervescence continues to play a role in cementing social solidarity.
- Society is a social product created by the actions of individuals that then exerts a coercive social force back on those individuals.
- But as people engage in more economic activity with neighbors or distant traders, they begin to loosen the traditional bonds of family, religion, and moral solidarity that had previously ensured social integration.
- Thus, solidarity and social integration are necessary for survival and do not require the same sort of coercion as under mechanical solidarity.
- Professor Dan Krier, of Iowa State University, explains Durkheim's theories of social solidarity and modernity.
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- Mechanical solidarity is found in less structurally complex societies while organic solidarity emerges in industrialized societies.
- Organic solidarity is social cohesion based upon the dependence individuals have on each other in more advanced societies.
- Thus, social solidarity is maintained in more complex societies through the interdependence of its component parts (e.g., farmers produce the food to feed the factory workers who produce the tractors that allow the farmer to produce the food).
- Durkheim formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology.
- Give examples for societies held together by mechanical or organic solidarity
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- Durkheim believed that an important component of social life was social solidarity, which is understood as a sense of community.
- In his classic study, Suicide, Durkheim argued that one of the root causes of suicide was a decrease in social solidarity – termed anomie (French for chaos) by Durkheim.
- In another work, The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim proposed that pre-industrial societies maintained their social solidarity through a mechanistic sense of community and through their religious affiliations.
- 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.
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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.
- For example, in his classic study, Suicide, Durkheim argued that one of the root causes of suicide was a decrease in social solidarity, a phenomenon which Durkheim referred to as anomie (French for chaos).
- According to Durkheim, the types of social solidarity correlate with types of society.
- 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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- 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 and stability in social structures.
- Structural functionalists ask: How does any given social phenomenon contribute to social stability?
- Conversely, being marked as deviant can actually bolster solidarity within the marked community as members take pride and ownership in their stigmatized identity, creating cohesive units of their own.
- While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was nevertheless an overarching social schism.
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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.
- Structural functionalists ask "How does any given social phenomenon contribute to social stability?"
- While this us-versus-them mentality solidified social identities and solidarities within the two categories, there was an overarching social schism.
- Accordingly, what originally appears as a fracturing of society actually reinforces social stability by enabling mechanisms for social adjustment and development.
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- Mechanical and organic solidarity are concepts referring to different modes of establishing and maintaining social order and cohesion.
- Social scientists have long sought to understand how and why individuals live together—especially in dense settings such as those found in urban environments.
- In The Division of Labor in Society, Emile Durkheim outlined two theories that attempt to explain how social order and solidarity is established and maintained.
- Solidarity describes connections between individuals that allow them to form a cohesive social network.
- Apply Durkheim's concepts of mechanical and organic solidarity to groups in the real world
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- A community is typically a social unit that is larger than a single household, comprised of individuals that share values and thus create an environment of social cohesion.
- In 1893, French sociologist Émile Durkheim incorporated the ideas of gemeinschaft and gesellschaft, particularly their influences on their respective divisions of labor, into his theory of social solidarity, published as The Division of Labor in Society.
- Mechanical solidarity is a type of community in which social cohesion comes from the homogeneity of individuals.
- Mechanical solidarity speaks to the moderate division of labor and close resemblance in social norms exhibited by Tönnies's gemeinschaft.
- Tina and Amy help each other, each providing a needed service for the other, and thus create a sense of social solidarity—a sense of community.
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- Emilie Durkheim was a driving force in developing the theory of the division of labor in socialization.
- 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).
- 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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- The functionalist perspective attempts to explain social institutions as collective means to meet individual and social needs.
- It is sometimes called structural-functionalism because it often focuses on the ways social structures (e.g., social institutions) meet social needs.
- 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.
- Durkheim argued that modern industrial society would destroy the traditional mechanical solidarity that held primitive societies together.
- Individuals are significant only in terms of their places within social systems (i.e., social status and position in patterns of social relations).