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Critically examine the analysis by Durkheim of the threats to social solidarity posed by industrialisation and discuss possible solutions to such threats.
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Critically examine the analysis by Durkheim of the threats to social solidarity posed by industrialisation and discuss possible solutions to such threats. Many social thinkers have tried to understand the nature of the changes that have transformed the modern world. Industrialisation, indeed, as the focus and there has been a long time of debates of whether the industrialisation brought benefits to the society or do more harm than good. We actually are all living in a world where industry dominates our lives. We all touched by it and experiencing its consequences. When you read 'industrialisation', what would you associate with it? Several sociologists analysed it and drawn up to their own conclusions. Durkheim is one of them. In Durkheim's views, the social solidarity-maintained when individuals are successfully integrated into social groups and regulated by a set of shared values and customs1-has changed and caused threats to the society since industrialisation stepped...
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