However, Weber argued that the strong and seemingly unwavering belief of the Protestant Ethic revealed a collectivist element due to its collective execution on both economic and social life. Through such collectivism, a domino effect has run its course onto society, unleashing the process of rationalisation and morphing the Western society into an iron cage, leaving its members with little to no power to flee from its grasp. As such, the collective force of capitalism and its consequent forms of bureaucracy are what affect the life-chances of individuals. While Gwartney, Lawson and Hall (2011) reported that United Kingdom is among the top ten of the most capitalist country, recent analysis has shown that it has caused a shift in the inequality of social class in respect to wealth and income and other social and cultural indicators (Bennett et al., 2008; Dorling, 2011; Hills, 2010; Wilkinson and Pickett, 2008). …show more content…
Mechanical solidarity involves the consensus of tendencies and ideas among the members of society are significantly greater in number and intensity than those which concern personally to each member. This is proven true from how society had the collective will to attain salvation through the act of submitting to God’s will. The growth of this solidarity is only in inverse ration to personality. "Solidarity which comes from likeness is at its maximum when the collective conscience completely envelops our whole conscience and coincides in all points with it", (Durkheim, 1893: 130). Durkheim stated that only primitive types of society display the characteristics of mechanical solidarity that are led by powerful systems of common