Practice question · True or false
Durkheim argued that cities replace the village’s solidarity of likeness with a solidarity based on the interdependence of specialists.
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- The claim contrasts cohesion by likeness with cohesion by interdependence.
- Specialisation is what makes the second kind possible.
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True
Why
Mechanical solidarity (we cohere because we are alike) gives way to organic solidarity (we cohere because we need each other’s different work). A city, or a firm’s org chart, is organic solidarity drawn as a map.
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