EDU002: Durkheim and social solidarity

Explain Durkheim’s view of shared values and specialist skills without assuming universal agreement.

Source note: Source note: This lesson teaches Durkheim’s consensus view through original explanatory material and fictional classroom examples.

Connect and Check

Durkheim argued that education helps create social solidarity by transmitting shared values.
Schools are also claimed to teach specialist skills needed for a complex division of labour.
A sociological evaluation asks whose values are transmitted and whether integration works equally for all groups.

Access: define social solidarity and identify one school routine.

Core: build a two-step explanation linking routine to integration.

Stretch: evaluate whether the same routine integrates all learners or benefits some groups more than others.

Durkheim / consensusMarxist challengeFeminist challengeInteractionist challenge

Outline and explain two ways schools may promote social solidarity. [10 marks]