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This is a blog for a community of students in Mike Levien's sections of Sociology 101B: "Sociological Theory," in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2009.
Theory Rocks!
This is the informal blog spot for Mike Levien's section of Sociology 101B. For the rest of the semester, we'll use this blog to clarify the work(s) of Durkheim, Weber, Foucault, de Beauvoir, MacKinnon, and Collins. Feel free to endlessly post, and don't forget: Theory Rocks!
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Mechanical solidarity (MS) is a sense of unity and togetherness based on people’s likenesses in society. The similarities people find among each other draws them together, this is why we seek our friends (pg. 17) they share traits that draw us together and form a unity. Because society is so tightly knit, if anyone were to deviate away from their bonds they would become socially weak (pg. 25) and possibly violate the collective consciousness (CC), strong beliefs shared by members of a society (pg. 39). These beliefs are so strong that laws are made, repressive laws, to punish the criminals who deviate from those beliefs. In punishing the criminal, their sentencing is done publicly to both shame them on a broad social spectrum and repair the CC and giving closure by showing the honest people that the crime was dealt with.
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