The Division of Labour in Society
Cultural studiesSociologySocial Studies

The Division of Labour in Society

by Émile Durkheim

Publisher
Macmillan
Pages
352
Language
English
Published
1984

Overview

What ties bind men to one another? What relationship exists between the individual personality and social solidarity? DURKHEIM resolves the paradox of the increasing autonomy of the individual by asserting that social solidarity has been transformed by the development of the division of labour and occupational specialisation, a transformation from mechanical to organic solidarity

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