Lecture 11: SOCI101: Durkhiem and Social Order

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Manchester University
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SOC 101 | Introduction to Sociology
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2023
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Lecture 11: SOCI101: Durkhiem and Social Order Key issues: Social order: • Intergration and Regulation • Mechanical and Organic Solidarity Conscience Collective The problem’s of order: Durkhiem and Disorder• Context: Industrial society revolutions • Major social flux Moral Disorder• Obligation and the individual Society offers shelter from danger Conscience Collective: • Shared norms and values • Gives individuals a sense of belonging • Gives society continuity • A key notion for sociology and criminology • A social fact • Taken on and reporoduced by members • Don’t exist independent of individual lends • Durkhiem called this ‘absurd’ • Relfection on these bonds • The interrelation between individual and collective The division of labour in society (1893) • Beyond economy: every aspect of society • Contemporary context: • Medicine? • Education? • Shops? 2 different forms of solidarity: 1. Mechanical- Dependant on likemindedness, a shared division of labour, segmented socieities, interconnected, repressive lae as a visible representation of mechanical solidarity, punishment and revenge of society against individual, RELIGION IS KEY 2. Organic- Emerges/develops, typical of modern industrial socieities, difference as a virtue, a complex division of labour, all dependant on one another, many different values is no issue, contracts that represent the status quo, makes conformist, functionalist criminological tradition Societal change? Conflict?: • Less complex theory • Change driven by population • Coinflict due to division of labour • Class conflic