9-1 lecture - Lecture 2 Social Origins of the Individual...

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