Inward Globalisation
Durkheim introduced the idea of 'Social Solidarity' in his paper the Divisions of Labour, where he explores the structures of society and the role of the individual within that society, and in turn the effects that society has upon the individual. Social solidarity occurs when the ideas and belifs of the individual are in allignment with the sociaties beliefs, one reinforces the other. Durkhiem argues that personality of a person is that which sets us apart from others, but that 'social solidarity can only grow in inverse ratio to personality' [ Durkheim, 1893], planly speaking, the less indiviuality a person has the more immersed in society they will be. In an increasingly globalised world indiviuality decreases as the global soical solidarity increases, it can be argued that individuals will then be less likely to question the society they live in and thus inequality will reign, the more emmersed they become, ' society becomes more capable of collective movement, at the same time that each of its elements has more freedom of movement' [Durkheim, 1893]. The assessments about society convays the relation between individual and society, the interdependence of one upon the other, it thus follows that globalisation is not just in society, but also in us as individuals, 'it is wrong to think of globalisation as just concerning the big systems, like the world financial order. Globalisation isn't only about what is 'out there', remote and far away from the individual. it is 'in here' phenomenon too influencing intimate and personal aspects of our lives' [ Giddens, 2002].