Exam 5: Community in the Modern World

Mechanical solidarity occurs in societies in which separate groups perform many different functions.

Greer, Orleans, and others suggest that approximately 90 percent of a city's population fits into one of three categories. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

The text observes that modern societies are large and complex, composed of diverse groups of people of which an individual has little or no knowledge. Durkheim used the term __________ in referring to this type of social organization.