SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Collective Behavior, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Class Consciousness

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: William Flynn

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Soci 1001 e03 roxana jahani 101006778 week 2 study notes (january 19, 2018) Major contributors to modern-day perspectives: emile durkheim, karl marx and max weber. Individual behavior is not the same as collective behavior and studying collective behavior is quite diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t f(cid:396)o(cid:373) studyi(cid:374)g i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals(cid:859) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396). Society acts as an external restraint on individual behavior. Collective conscience is the collective beliefs, morals and attitudes of a society. Social integration, the strength that ties the people of a society is an important factor of social life. Durkheim compared society to a living organism (each organ/member has a role; even the deviants are necessary as their punishment reaffirms our moral consciousness). Social facts are social forces that are to be considered to be real and exist outside of the individual. Du(cid:396)khei(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:373)ai(cid:374) (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:449)as so(cid:272)ial disi(cid:374)teg(cid:396)atio(cid:374), the st(cid:396)e(cid:374)gth that held society together was failing.