Solidarity In The Film Goodman-Delahunty And Foot

Work is central to one’s livelihood. Goodman-Delahunty and Foot explore the evolution of the workplace discrimination and harassment in which they state “Perhaps the most prominent and central relationships in contemporary society are employment relationships. They affect the careers, livelihood, and well-being of individuals as profoundly and perhaps more extensively than family relationships. Work is how most people structure their time, focus their energies, and anchor their identities” (Goodman-Delahunty & Foote 2011). The importance of workplace relationships is emphasized throughout the film. Throughout the film one witnesses, Josey hostile work environment consumes her. Working in male-dominated workplace ensure that Jose will be ostracized in two ways, promiscuous and as a lesbian. Both her male co-worker and their wives call Josey a whore; her father questions her sexuality. These

He explored what holds society together when it is made up of people with specialized roles and responsibilities. In The Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim dictates the external indicator of solidarity - the law- can be used to uncover two types of solidarity, mechanical and organic. Mechanical solidarity than to be small indicating a low division of labor. Societies characterized by organic solidarity, on the other hand, are more secular and individualistic due to the specialization of each of our tasks. Put simply, organic solidarity is more complex with a higher division of labor. This can be applied here as Durkheim writes, "relationships are therefore needful to repair the damage if it has already been done, or to prevent it from happening ...they only arise ... to re-establish boundaries that have been violated and to reinstate each individual in his own domain (Durkheim, 1984). Unlike mechanical solidarity, organic solidarity is not based on similar traits but instead on the reestablishment of the