SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Social Integration, Complex Number, Transitional Fossil

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Durkheim critiqued the utilitarian"s (where order was seeing as at economic consequence (invisible hand) but doesn"t agree) critiqued this about the harmony of interest, said that the economy theorist have overlooked this. ^ durkheim explained that social order cannot be accounted for by the utilitarian pursuit of self-interest but instead rests on an underlying solidarity that defines how people are to treat one another. The expanding industrial division of labour a higher form of solidarity than existed before. Durkheim craved social order and solidarity and he had an optimistic view of the future. Believed that modern society was in a transitional period facing many problems that were due to rapid. These rapid changes had swept away old moral rules and regulations. As new rules for individual life and social organization emerged, society would move from a disharmonious transitional form to a harmonious form. Fostering a functional perspective, durkheim argues that the function of labour division can form group cohesion.