Using Everyday Life to Illustrate Durkheim's Organic Solidarity.

Abstract

Martin Luther King Jr., a famous sociology major, once remarked, "Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world." Drawing inspiration from this quote students are asked to describe what they did in a given day, in order to illustrate the individualism, diversity, and interdependence that is associated...

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Details

Subject Area(s):

Theory

Resource Type(s):

Class Activity

Class Level(s):

Any Level

Class Size(s):

Any

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Increase students' ability to recognize and apply abstract concepts to their own lives.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. In an essay exam or short writing assignment, students are asked to explain and apply Durkheim's concept of Organic Solidarity to their own lives.