The Social Division of Labor in Society, by Emile Durkheim
by admin on December 10, 2009
Emile Durkheim, one of the founding fathers of sociology, published The Division of Labor in Society in 1892. It was his doctoral dissertation, and it contains fundamental and far ranging statements about the nature of human society, it’s development, and what binds individuals to one another and to society. For Durkheim, the social division of labor is not only an economic arrangement, reflecting the level of technological and societal advancement, but also something which gives rise to forms of morality and solidarity.
Emile Durkheim developed the social theory of Auguste Comte further towards an academic field. He was a structural functionalist.
This is a very important contribution to classic social theory and to sociology. It is also an early conceptualization of structural functionalist theorizing.
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I classified this book as Classic social theory, Emile Durkheim, Labor, Sociology, Structural functionalist. Is this a sufficient set of categories?