Internet Exercises

Go to http://durkheim.itgo.com/solidarity.html.

Scroll down the section that reads "Durkheim on Solidarity" and read the excerpts from Durkheim’s work. Then answer the following questions:

1. What metaphor does Durkheim use to describe mechanical solidarity?
2. What metaphor does Durkheim use to describe organic solidarity?
3. How does Durkheim describe the place of the individual in a society characterized by mechanical solidarity?
4. What do you think are the "organs" of a society characterized by organic solidarity?

Go to http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Marx/COMMMAN.HTML.

This is an excerpt from Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Answer the following questions:

1. How does Marx characterize the entirety of history?
2. [Read the fifth paragraph.] What is the distinctive feature of the epoch of the bourgeoisie?
3. [Read the third paragraph.] What were the classes of ancient Rome and feudal Europe?
4. [Read the last paragraph of the document.] Marx argues that the bourgeoisie produces its own "grave-diggers." What does this mean?