Durkheim's Division of Labor

TITLE: ¡§EXPLAIN AND DISCUSS E. DURKHEIM¡¦S DIVISION OF LABOR.¡¨ Born at Espinal in the eastern French province of Lorraine, on April 15, 1858, Emile Durkheim is regarded as one of the founders of modern sociology. His father was a rabbi and as the majority of his ancestors where rabbis too, he decided quite early to follow the family tradition and become a rabbi himself while following the regular course of instruction at school. At the age …

…few moments and that if we look further into the matter, we shall see that this total harmony of interests conceals a latent or deferred conflict. For where interest is the only ruling force each individual finds himself in a state of war with every other since nothing comes to modify the egos¡Kthere is nothing less constant than interest. Today it unites me to you, tomorrow it will make me your enemy.¡¨ (Durkheim,1947:203-204)