Durkheim: SolidarityMechanical and organic solidarity, and what holds a divided society together.SociologyMechanicalSmall-scale, low division oflabourBonds from likeness and sharedbeliefStrong collective conscienceRepressive law: punish theoffenderDeviance threatens sharedvaluesOrganicComplex, high division of labourBonds from interdependence, notlikenessWeaker, thinner collectiveconscienceRestitutive law: restore therelationAnomie appears when norms lagchangeTHE DIFFERENCE THAT MATTERSModernity does not destroy solidarity; it changes its source fromsimilarity to mutual dependence.Durkheim treats social facts as external and constraining, studied likethings. That premise is what functionalism inherits.Durkheim: Solidaritylearnposters.com
Durkheim: Solidarity — printable law & society wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Durkheim: Solidarity poster

Mechanical against Organic, side by side.

Durkheim treats social facts as external and constraining, studied like things. That premise is what functionalism inherits.

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What’s on the Durkheim: Solidarity poster?
Mechanical against Organic, side by side. Mechanical: Small-scale, low division of labour; Mechanical: Bonds from likeness and shared belief; Mechanical: Strong collective conscience; Mechanical: Repressive law: punish the offender; Mechanical: Deviance threatens shared values; Organic: Complex, high division of labour; Organic: Bonds from interdependence, not likeness; Organic: Weaker, thinner collective conscience; Organic: Restitutive law: restore the relation; Organic: Anomie appears when norms lag change; Modernity does not destroy solidarity; it changes its source from similarity to mutua…. Durkheim treats social facts as external and constraining, studied like things. That premise is what functionalism inherits.
Who is the Durkheim: Solidarity poster for?
Durkheim: Solidarity belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning theory can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Durkheim: Solidarity poster?
When asking what binds people who have almost nothing in common. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Durkheim: Solidarity belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Durkheim: Solidarity?
Bourdieu: Forms of Capital, Conflict Theory and The Frankfurt School sit alongside Durkheim: Solidarity in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bourdieu: Forms of CapitalConflict TheoryThe Frankfurt School
Is the Durkheim: Solidarity poster free to download and print?
Yes. Durkheim: Solidarity downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Durkheim: Solidarity poster print at?
Durkheim: Solidarity is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Durkheim: Solidarity loses nothing.Printing guide

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