| Ali Ahmad Syed |
Monday, September 19, 2011 12:04 PM |
In The Division of Social Labour (1893), he proposed a [B]general theory to explain the evolution of societies[/B] from primitive, held together by mechanical solidarity (based on similarity between different individuals), to modern, held together by organic solidarity (based upon complementary differences between individuals). Unlike economists, whom he accused of tautology, Durkheim based this evolution towards greater division of labour on the social fact of increasing density of populations, which led to reduction in the level of mechanical solidarity, and therefore to consciousness of the change. Following their method, economists posited a deliberate choice of increased division of labour as the cause although it was also the effect.
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