DURKHEIM’S VIEW ON WORK
1. Introduction.
An advocate for social solidarity and communal living is the kind of sociologist Emile Durkheim was. For instance, with a concept like suicide, he was more concerned with the “individual’s integration into a community’’ rather than the mere reference to the mental state of the individual (Watson, 2003: 280). Durkheim was a great sociologist who wrote influential works, one of which was called The Division of Labour in Society. He wrote a book on this in which he explains how social solidarity and anomie came to influence how pre-industrial and industrial societies emerged through the growing division of labour (Haralambos and Heald, 1980: 237). He believed that the group’s success is more important than that of the individual and that the division of labour produced more social cohesion or solidarity as societies moved from being primitive to modern.
This assignment aims to look at how Durkheim explained what division of labour is, how it has influenced social cohesion among individuals, the differences between pre-industrial and industrial societies with regards to solidarity, the threats to solidarity and lastly, Durkheim’s solution to reintegration of moral values in society.
2. Durkheim’s view on the division of labour (The basis of individual freedom).
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For Durkheim, forced division of labour also brought its’ fair share of troubles (Grint, 2005: 97). It happens when there is inequality in the division of labour. For example, there are people in industrial societies who work for companies, but they are appointed with job titles which do not match their skills or abilities. They acquire such opportunities, because they have connections or they know people with higher statuses to get them the job easily without merit. Durkheim suggests that forced division of labour can only be avoided if inequality is eliminated (Grint, 2005:
1. Introduction.
An advocate for social solidarity and communal living is the kind of sociologist Emile Durkheim was. For instance, with a concept like suicide, he was more concerned with the “individual’s integration into a community’’ rather than the mere reference to the mental state of the individual (Watson, 2003: 280). Durkheim was a great sociologist who wrote influential works, one of which was called The Division of Labour in Society. He wrote a book on this in which he explains how social solidarity and anomie came to influence how pre-industrial and industrial societies emerged through the growing division of labour (Haralambos and Heald, 1980: 237). He believed that the group’s success is more important than that of the individual and that the division of labour produced more social cohesion or solidarity as societies moved from being primitive to modern.
This assignment aims to look at how Durkheim explained what division of labour is, how it has influenced social cohesion among individuals, the differences between pre-industrial and industrial societies with regards to solidarity, the threats to solidarity and lastly, Durkheim’s solution to reintegration of moral values in society.
2. Durkheim’s view on the division of labour (The basis of individual freedom).
According to Durkheim, …show more content…
For Durkheim, forced division of labour also brought its’ fair share of troubles (Grint, 2005: 97). It happens when there is inequality in the division of labour. For example, there are people in industrial societies who work for companies, but they are appointed with job titles which do not match their skills or abilities. They acquire such opportunities, because they have connections or they know people with higher statuses to get them the job easily without merit. Durkheim suggests that forced division of labour can only be avoided if inequality is eliminated (Grint, 2005: