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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Pathological form of division of labour.

  • UPSC 1994
  • Sociological Thinkers

Émile Durkheim held that a normal division of labour produces organic solidarity. In Book III of The Division of Labour in Society (1893) he admitted that industrial Europe showed crises, class hatred and unhappy work instead. He did not blame specialisation itself. He blamed pathological (abnormal) forms, in which the conditions for solidarity (regulation, spontaneity,…

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  • Anomic division of labour
  • Forced division of labour
  • Poorly coordinated division of labour
  • Evaluation
  • Conclusion

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