The Elementary forms of Religious Life 2. B. Instead the normal state of the division of labor is one of stablity. Repressive - penal law, imposition of some kind of punishment 2. Restitutive - reestablishment of situation prior to the breaking of the law. Role of the punishment is to affirm and protect the collective conscience.
Tribe forms a unitiy based on the strongly shared common traditions and norms.
G. Increasing complexity of div of labor will decrease collective conscience and mechanical solidarity and will will increase functional interdependence and thus organic solidarity. The failure of traditional institutions is the main source of anomie. The state must play a moral role as well as an economic role. Alleviation of the malaise of modern society must be moral not economic. The state must replace religion and traditional forms in providing moral guidance, a horizon for their aspirations, counselling of the poor to accept their lot, and instructing the rich in caring for the poor.