SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sui Generis, Kai T. Erikson, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
10 Feb 2016
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Society as a unique type ( society as a reality sui generis) Individuals don"t have murder rates, only society does. Social stats> and the use of indicators ( concrete measures of something. Example: suicide> social phenomenon ( an outcome of an mental individual issues, but also a society as a whole) The essential goodness of the evolved society (comte= society is evolving= social evolution, therefore society is perfect in its natural form. The collective conscience- shared perspective, same morals, values ( society as a whole) People can be brought together because they are same or different. Mechanical: when everybody was doing the same thing = brought. Mechanical and organic solidarity together because of their similarities ( replicable) Organic: homologous to the body: can"t exist without the other. Law evolves just like society does emerges in industrialized societies. solidarity social cohesion and integration comes from the homogeneity of.
