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.

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:

sociologyindex.com

Haviland, William A. Human Evolution and Prehistory. Toronto: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1994.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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