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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Division of labour and the differentiation of social structure.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Sociological Thinkers

For Émile Durkheim (The Division of Labour in Society, 1893), the division of labour is not an economic device for productivity, as Adam Smith held. It is a transformation of the whole social structure, from a segmental type to an organised type.

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  • From segmental to organised structure
  • Causes of differentiation
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