Emile Durkheim placed great emphasis on the division of labor (DOL) in society. He wondered about what it was, and how it applied to everything that society encompassed, such as individual people, animals, and plants. He was not the first to ponder these things and try to come up with an explanation that made sense of them. As society continues to change and grow there are some aspects of it that stay the same. Rebellion, the attempt to find individuality among the masses, and the independence of the people as being separate from the whole of the group are some of the things that have remained static for decades.
             There is belief among many sociologists that disputes can be settled by the scientific method and that people are able to restructure their social relationships if they have the right knowledge. This 'right' knowledge is what Durkheim and others feel they are providing by writing on the subject. Most of what Durkheim writes about the nature of society and the way it changes comes from his analysis of the works of Comte and Spencer. One of the things Durkheim is most concerned with is solidarity. He talks about both organic and contractual solidarity and much of what he feels to be accurate on these matters comes from either Comte or Spencer. To help explain the feeling of solidarity and the DOL Durkheim uses an analogy about a married couple.
             He states that the DOL goes beyond economic interests and is in fact the establishment of both moral and social order. The married couple analogy does not go far enough to explain the DOL for large societies, though. In fact, Durkheim draws there from Comte, who said that the DOL was the continuous distribution of different human tasks which constitutes the principal element in social solidarity. By this, he means that all of the people in society doing their jobs is what makes the society work. This is the essence of the solidarity that arises from the DOL....