SOCI 1001 Study Guide - Final Guide: Collective Behavior, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Anomie
11 Nov 2018
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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 different from studying individuals" behavior. 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. Durkheim"s main concern was social disintegration, the strength that held society together was failing. Mechanical solidarity, which held pre-industrial societies together is a social order maintained through minimal division of labor and a common collective consciousness.
