SOC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Group Cohesiveness, Herding
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The way of life shared by a group of people - the knowledge, beliefs, values, rules or laws, language, customs, symbols and material products (such as food, houses and transportation) within a society that help meet human needs. Learning culture puts our social world in an understandable framework. Each society includes institutions (elements that meet basic needs, the hardware of society) Micro-level, positions we hold: parent, student, employee. Groups we belong to: family, club, work groups. As societies develop, changes take place in the social structure and relationships between people. Very few societies are isolated from global impact today. Social cohesion and integration based on the similarity of individuals in the group, including shared beliefs, values and emotional ties between members of the group. Premodern societies were held together by this. As societies transformed, they became more complex through increasingly multifaceted divisions of labor and changes in the ways people carried out necessary tasks for survival. (durkheim)
