ociety has gone through in the history of mankind. The increase in the number of jobs, the separation that occurred unavoidably as a result of the division of labour in industry and the promotion of self-interest, resulting from the capitalist ideology that had become prevalent, changed the behaviour and the conscience of all society's members. Emile Durkheim, through his work, analysed and considered the effects that these dramatic changes had on society and its members and begun his analysis by considering the division of labour through his book "The Division of Labour in Society".
             Along with industrialization came a dramatic increase in production, the introduction of the factory system and the division of labour. The division of labour as, Adam Smith suggested, brought about an immense increase in productivity and efficiency. According to Durkheim, the division of labour did not result from human nature, as was suggested by Adams Smith in 'The Wealth of Nations', but that its conditions must be found in the essential properties of all organised matter. It is not therefore, only a result of the factory system but actually an attraction as old as humanity itself of people to virtues, which they themselves lack. The level of the division of labour, Durkheim believed, was directly proportional to the level of dynamic density, that is, the number of people in a society and the amount of interaction that occurs among them. The reason it developed, in the way in which we know it today, at the time that it did is simply because of the innovation and inventive breakthrough that occurred at the time. According to Durkheim there is an apparent correlation between the functional specialisation of the parts society and the extent of that society's evolutionary development in the same way that Charles Darwin perc
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