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remember the distinction.
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One would think organic solidarity must be
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old--right?--and mechanical must be modern, the machines.
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Now the opposite is true.
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I kept making these mistakes for the first two or three years
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when I was reading Durkheim, some forty-five years ago.
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Well mechanical solidarity is
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which describes pre-modern societies,
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and this is a solidarity
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which is based on the similarities of the parts.
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Well this is why you can have a penal law,
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because a penal law