Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Evolution, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Inequality
3 Apr 2016
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Talking about theory of social evolution: from what he calls mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity, evolutionary movement from simple societies with little division of labor to complex societies, last 2 and a half thousand years. Answer: best indicator is laws and punishment. Simple has different kind of laws and punishments than contemporary. ** laws and changing nature of social contracts: two types of laws in organic (modern) Talking about how modern societies have not yet achieved solidarity: still haven"t come to maturity, some still suffering from anomic division of labor, some still suffering from forced division of labor. Tell what he means by these things. What he means by forced division of labor. What he"s doing in forced divisions of labor is trying to mount argument justifying social inequality. What he"s trying to do is argue against marx: liberal/conservative argument against marx.
