This man argued that although primitive societies bind individuals to achieve mechanical solidarity, more complex societies achieve organic solidarity through voluntary bonds of interdependence. He elucidated his approach to sociology in The Rules of the Sociological Method. Based on his field work on Australian aborigines,
This man argued that although primitive societies bind individuals to achieve mechanical solidarity, more complex societies achieve organic solidarity through voluntary bonds of interdependence. He elucidated his approach to sociology in The Rules of the Sociological Method. Based on his field work on Australian aborigines, he argued that religion reflects society rather than divinity in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. This author of The Division of Labor in Society described fatalistic, egotistic, and altruistic varieties of the title phenomenon in his most famous work. For 10 points, name the French author of who introduced the concept of anomie in Suicide.
This man argued that although primitive societies bind individuals to achieve mechanical solidarity, more complex societies achieve organic solidarity through voluntary bonds of interdependence.
Émile {Durkheim}