Emil Dyurkgeym (1858 - 1917) - French sociologist positivist, one of the founders of modern sociological theory. The book "On the division of social labor" is a publication of successfully defended doctoral dissertation of the author. Its content is, in essence, amounts to a general theory of social systems and their development. The main purpose of the work - to prove that, contrary to some theories, the division of social labor provides social solidarity, or, in other words, performs a moral function. But behind this formulation hides another goal, more significant for the author: to prove that the division of labor - is the one factor that creates and recreates the unity of societies in which traditional beliefs have lost their strength and appeal. In this work he developed the key concepts of his sociological theory of "collective consciousness", "social function" and "anomie" Referring to the definition given by Durkheim, "moral facts" is a tour de force of society, forcing individuals to abandon their own selfish interests in the interests of collective.
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