NURSING ANM AND GNM

NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS

SOCIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Émile Durkheim, where is consensus strongest?
A
in small tribal societies
B
in large industrial societies
C
in universities
D
in countries with large international trade
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In order to achieve this goal of a strong, successful society, individuals must agree on shared values and norms. it is this agreement, or value consensus, that ensures cooperation towards this goal. In other words, Durkheim believed consensus is strongest within a successful society.

Detailed explanation-2: -The collective consciousness binds individuals together and creates social integration. For Durkheim, the collective consciousness was crucial in explaining the existence of society: it produces society and holds it together.

Detailed explanation-3: -Durkheim argues that the division of labour itself which creates organic solidarity, because of mutual needs of individuals in modern soceity. In both types of societies, individuals for the most part “interact in accordance with their obligations to others and to society as a whole.

Detailed explanation-4: -Durkheim called this the ‘collective consciousness’, meaning a collective way of thinking and acting. Parsons’ coined the phrase: the ‘value consensus’ to describe the need for societies to have a common set of beliefs and principles to work with and towards, a consensus meaning a general agreement or sharing of ideas.

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Durkheim, more primitive or traditional societies were held together by mechanical solidarity; members of society lived in relatively small and undifferentiated groups, where they shared strong family ties and performed similar daily tasks.

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