modified:: 2023-10-18, 2352
up:: Social Science
tags:: Durkheim Theory

Societal Solidarity

Overview

What binds people to form societies?

• All societies fall on scale from Mechanical Solidarity to Organic Solidarity as predominant source of cohesion.
  • Mechanical Solidarity: Binding by uniformity; The Collective Consciousness.
    • Repressive Laws to punish deviance & strengthen solidarity.
  • Organic Solidarity: Binding by interdependence. Restitutive Laws & Social Customs which promote peace & cooperation.
• The Social Facts (including Moral Facts) of society can be explained by the nature of solidarity.
  • See Durkheim's Societal Shift#Implications.
• Durkheim's Societal Shift: Shift from pre-modern Segmentary Society -> modern Organised Society.
  • Dynamic Density: ???
• The common characteristic of all Moral Facts is that they serve to improve Solidarity.
  • See #Quotes#What is Moral

Quotes

What is Moral

"We may say that what is moral is everything that is a source of solidarity, everything that forces man to take account of other people..." (Durkheim, 1893, pg 331)

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