Anthropology: mechanical solidarity
Tutoring social sciences, definitions are important. The tutor begins about mechanical solidarity.
mechanical solidarity:
Similarity among people such that everyone understands each other’s jobs. Furthermore, the society’s technology is commonly understood – and even reproducible – by its members.
Similarity among people such that everyone understands each other’s jobs. Furthermore, the society’s technology is commonly understood – and even reproducible – by its members.
A society with mechanical solidarity is unified by the shared reality of all its members. Hunter-gatherer societies, as well as stone-age farming ones before large-scale irrigation, had mechanical solidarity.
Source:
Haviland, William A. Human Evolution and Prehistory. Toronto: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994.
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