DURKHEIM, Emile.

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De la Division du Travail Social. Second edition (first 1893) of the author's first major work and one of the founding texts in the field of sociology. The Division of Labour in Society was Durkheim's dissertation, which built on the ideas of August Comte to analyse the way that societies maintain order and how this changes as they progress from primitive to industrial modes of organisation.For the second edition, Durkheim wrote a new preface to deal with the role professional groups could play in creating social solidarity in modern society.

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