EMILE DURKHEIM

EMILE DURKHEIM

1. Changes in Society due to Industrial Revolution

   • Mechanical & Organic Solidarity
     • Mechanical
       • Pre-Industrial
       • Social bonds based on shared morality that unite members of societies
     • Organic
       • Modern
       • Solidarity based on differences
     • How solidarity and its different forms affect society
   • Suicide
     • Egotistic Suicide
       • too little integration
     • Anomic Suicide
       • too little regulation
     • Altruistic Suicide
       • too little regulation
     • Fatalisitic Suicide
       • too much integration
   • Religion
     • Importance
       • brought people together
     • Varies in societies but shares 2 main characteristics
       • acts as a socialising agent
       • shares a coherent system of beliefs & practices

2. Anomie

   • individual/group who experience isolation or normlessness
   • Inadequate transition from mechanical to organic

3. Division of Labour

   • Organisation of work, the division of particular task into many separate specialised jobs
   • Pre-industrial = low division of labour
     • One person do it all, wide variety of skills but no specialised ones
   • Modern = High division of labour
     • People are more specialised in one area, less wide variety of skills

4. 1858 - 1917