Emile Durkheim Social Integration Analysis

Emile Durkheim once said, "Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them."
Social integration Drug addiction, gang violence, and teen pregnancy are all examples of things seen to be negative lifestyles. Social integration is how people in a group interact connect with one another, and the impacts they leave on each other. The groups can be positively impacting groups to our society, or negatively impacting groups to our society. Despite if the group has negative or positive impact on our society, social cohesion, (which is another term for social integration) is all about working together within the specific group to achieve a shared goal. Emile Durkheim’s idea of social integration cannot be applied to teen pregnancy, drug addictions …show more content…
Our world is broken down into thousands of smaller social groups that all come together to create a society. Each smaller group plays their part to either better our society or to cause a negative impact on our society. People come together to form a group because they share the same values, beliefs, culture and social location. Ultimately, the members of a group are striving for a common goal. Drug addicts share the common goal of wanting to own more drugs to in-turn get them high. Gang violence shares the goal a gang has to maintain ownership and power of a territory or superiority over other gang members. For teen pregnancy, their mutual goal is to get a good education and occupation so they can provide a good life for their child. A group of any kind has an impact on our world/nation’s society regardless of their intention …show more content…
Organic solidary is a “term used for the interdependence that results from the division of labor; as part of the same unit, we all depend on other to fulfill their jobs.” In drug addiction, organic solidarity is used because the growers or producers of the drug, depends on the drug users to use their products. In correspondence, the drug users depend on the drug producers to produce their drugs. In between the drug producers and the addicts, there is the drug dealers who distribute the drugs. All the components of this chain make up a group which establishes social integration because everyone one involved in the group has the common goal of more drugs. For the producers, this means more drug addicts so they can produce more drugs and expand their industry. Dealers want more drug addicts so they can distribute more drugs and get more money for them. Lastly, the drug dealers want more drugs because they are in a constant search of getting high. This illustrates interdependence and is a great example of organic