{"id":45613,"date":"2026-08-15T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45613"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:48:21","slug":"the-division-of-labor-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45613","title":{"rendered":"The Division of Labor in Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> \u00c9mile Durkheim<\/p>\n<h2>Synopsis<\/h2>\n<p>Durkheim asks how increasingly complex societies remain socially integrated. He distinguishes mechanical solidarity, based on similarity and shared beliefs, from organic solidarity, in which people become mutually dependent because they perform specialized roles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to Sociology<\/h2>\n<p>The book established the division of labor as a social as well as economic phenomenon. It helped sociology explain modernization, occupational specialization, social cohesion, law, and the risks of anomie when social regulation fails to keep pace with change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: \u00c9mile Durkheim Synopsis Durkheim asks how increasingly complex societies remain socially integrated. He distinguishes mechanical solidarity, based on similarity and shared beliefs, from organic solidarity, in which people become mutually dependent because they perform specialized roles. Why It Matters to Sociology The book established the division of labor as a social as well as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Division of Labor in Society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}