SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Altruistic Suicide, Group Cohesiveness, Social Integration

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Moore,Dionne Chanele

Document Summary

This chapter- explain how society coheres and why some people transgress the boundaries of normality. Social deviance- any transgression of socially established norms. Changes in laws signal shifting social values and changes in social norms. Durkheim- used functionalist approach to explain social cohesion- the way people form social bonds, relate to each other, and get along on a day-to-day basis. Mechanical/segmental solidarity- pre modern society, sameness of individual parts. Organic solidarity- modern society, social cohesion based on interdependence because the members each has different functions. Division of labor resulted in increase of productivity, but also does divide a little bit more, makes it more difficult to form social bonds. When one commits act of deviance- offend the collective conscience (common faith of. Makes us all interdependent set of social norms by which a society and its member abide) The way in which social realignment is achieved depends on the type of solidarity holding the certain society together.