In The Division of Labor in Society, David Emile Durkheim provides an answer using an external indicator of solidarity, the law, to reveal two types of social solidarity, Mechanical Solidarity and Organic Solidarity. To build a good society altruism, morality, and social solidarity are essential ingredients. Altruism and social solidarity are about activities intended to benefit the welfare of others. Altruism and social solidarity lead to moral culture. Collective Solidarity refers to a state of social bonding or interdependency which has foundation in similarity of belief, values and shared activities. David Emile Durkheim argued that social solidarity takes different forms in different historical periods and varies in strength among groups in the same society. Difficulty in discussing social solidarity arises from the generality of the term. David Emile Durkheim argues in 'The Division of Labor in Society' that the type of social solidarity has changed, due to the increasing division of labor.
Social Solidarity, Human Rights, and Collective Action: Considerations in the Implementation of the National Health Insurance in South Africa, Renate Douwes, Maria Stuttaford, and Leslie London. Abstract: Participation is recognized as an important contribution to implementing the right to health. It features as a key element of the global movement to achieve universal health coverage. This paper explores the interplay of trust, reciprocity, and altruism and how these individual actions can advance toward solidarity and collective action.
Durkheim’s Theory
of Social Solidarity and Social Rules
Alexander Gofman.
Abstract: It is obvious and
generally accepted that, in one form or another, social solidarity was always
the focus of
David Emile
Durkheim’s attention. In fact, for him, it serves as a synonym for
the normal state of society, while absence of it is a deviation from that normal
state, or social pathology.
The theme of solidarity permeates all
David Emile
Durkheim’s work. His
first course of lectures at the University of Bordeaux, read in the years
1887–1888, was not by chance called Social Solidarity, while his doctoral
thesis (1893) was devoted to the demonstration of the basic role of the division
of labor in building, maintaining, and reinforcing social solidarity (David
Emile Durkheim
[1984] 1997). It is true that
David Emile Durkheim gradually moved away from social
solidarity, probably due to its massive use outside social science and the
thinker’s unwillingness to become a victim of the idols of the marketplace or
those of the theatre.
Classical
Concepts of Social Solidarity As The Basis of Theoretical Studies on The
Institutions of Modern Civil Society. Irina Vladimirovna Naletovaa, Alexander Vladimirovich
Okatova, Olga Valentinovna Zhulikovab.
Abstract:
The given article is focused
on identifying the position and role of social solidarity within classical
sociology that would make it possible to use this heuristic potential in modern
practices as well. The study considers the concepts of social solidarity
developed by the representatives of classical sociology. The suggested approach
makes it possible to obtain more comprehensive and profound understanding of the
structure and essence of modern civil society. The result of the investigation
is represented by the justification of the thesis that modern civil society
encompasses social solidarity as an inseparable component which cannot be
investigated otherwise than being duly supported by classical sociological
theories.