Assertion: division's role | /r/HasProperty | played by heredity
Facets:
value: in determining individual capacities
type: PURPOSE
value: in the distribution of tasks
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: It was Durkheim's goal, however, to show that, for at least two reasons, the role played by heredity in the distribution of tasks has declined in the course of social evolution.
text: First, Durkheim observed, aptitudes appear to be less transmissible by heredity precisely to the degree that they are more specialized; in so far as a society has a more complex division of labor, therefore, the relative role played by heredity in determining individual capacities will have been reduced.