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What are the basic questions which inspired Durkheim to study the division of labour in society? Critically comment on his conclusions.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Sociological Thinkers

Émile Durkheim's doctoral work The Division of Labour in Society (1893) was written in Third Republic France, amid industrialisation, class strife and the decline of Church authority. The book is less about economics than about the moral basis of modern social order.

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