SOC 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Fact, Investment
2 Feb 2017
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The main dynamic of modern development is the division of labor as a basis for social cohesion and organic solidarity. Durkheim believed that sociology must study social facts as things, just as science would analyze the natural world. His study of suicide led him to stress the influence of social factors, qualities of a society external to the individual, on a person"s actions. Durkheim argued that society exerts social constraint over our actions. The main dynamic of modern development is the expansion of capitalism. Rather than being cohesive, society is divided by class differences. Marx believed that we must study the divisions within a society that are derived from the economic inequalities of capitalism. The main dynamic of modern development is the rationalization of social and economic life. Weber focused on why western societies developed so differently from other societies.
