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What according to Emile Durkheim is the nature of relationship between the individual and society? Explain this with the help of his analysis of division of labour in society.

  • UPSC 2006
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Émile Durkheim, society is not a sum of individuals but a moral reality sui generis that precedes and shapes them. The individual, however, is not simply crushed by it: individuality itself is a social product, and it grows as society becomes more complex. The Division of Labour in Society (1893) is his demonstration of…

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  • Society prior to the individual
  • The argument of the Division of Labour
  • The cult of the individual
  • When the relationship goes wrong
  • Indian illustration
  • Limits
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