Question

Write short notes on Organic solidarity and mechanical solidarity

Answer 1

Mechanical solidarity is the social integration of members of a society who have common values and beliefs. ... In a society characterized by organic solidarity, there is relatively greater division of labour, with individuals functioning much like the interdependent but differentiated organs of a living body.

Answer 2

Mechanical and organic solidarity. Mechanicaland organic solidarity, in the theory of the French social scientist Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), the social cohesiveness of small, undifferentiated societies (mechanical) and of societies differentiated by a relatively complex division of labour (organic).