Lecture 2: Social Origins of the Individual
Outline:
Durkheim's
Division of Labor in Society
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Where did social bonds come from?
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Became concerned in what creates it
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How is it that modern societies come together
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Mechanical Solidarity
– likeness (“Mirrow Neurons”? “collective consciousness”)
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“automatic”, forced you to feel solidarity
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the sense of you and I are alike, therefore we have kinship (like if you find someone
who enjoys your sense of weird music)
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in traditional societies, all men and all women did same thing, worshiped gods in same
way, thus shared a sense of likeness, literally like each other
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mechanical in the sense that you feel kinship in the unconscious and conscious level
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mirror neurons link together on the basis of similarity
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in society where there is total agreement in moral standards , the group comes together
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punishes deviants (entering god's alter, etc), people are bound together physically
and mentally
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Organic Solidarity – interdependence
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Modern society has an elaborate social division
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everyone is almost different, very different people lead different lives
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