organic solidarity

noun

, Sociology.

1. social cohesiveness that is based on division of labor and interdependence and is characteristic of complex, industrial societies.

Example Sentences

Another legacy of the past year, Abdullah said, is that the “almost performative solidarity” displayed by some non-Black people in support of Black Lives Matter in the past has been replaced by what she calls a more “organic solidarity.”

From Los Angeles Times

The minority had no basis for organic solidarity, as each of its number was motivated only by self-interest.

From Project Gutenberg

But this form of idealism cannot be said to differentiate our time from the Early Victorian era, for it found its classic expression back in the middle of the last century in Max Stirner's Der Einzige und sein Eigentum, a book which has been forgotten amid the growing consciousness of the organic solidarity of society.

From Project Gutenberg

The conclusions he derives from it are that whenever professional specialisation causes multiplication of distinct branches of activity, we get organic solidarity—implying differences—substituted for mechanical solidarity, based upon likenesses.

From Project Gutenberg

It lit up the industrial world, then struggling into organic solidarity, with lurid flames, and there were those who had some trading or personal grievance against the company, who not less eagerly threw on fresh fuel of their own. 

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