Emile Durkheim's Social Integration and Differences in Integration Between Modern and Premodern SocietiesSocial integration is simply defined as those events that make communities feel valued in a way or another. Social integration ensures that all individuals receive the values ​​or services needed in a society. Its activities are usually complicated and the processes positively affect many people from different parts of the world. Factors that negatively affect social integration include activities such as corruption of countries, poor water supply for humans, negative impacts of climate change on societies, poverty in communities, pollutants that affect areas fishing and thus affecting society, deforestation by individuals, unemployment and but also global activities and processes that can make it compacted (Durkheim 1964, p. 375). A good example is social integration involving children and adolescents, social networks that negatively affect people, discriminatory activities and cultural integration of certain communities that negatively impact individuals. contribute to the social integration of humans resulting from situations such as the presence of refugees which is a good example of a social integration situation. According to Emile Durkheim, the division of labor changed the unit enormously as different societies moved from premodern to modern times (Jones 1986, p. 34). He argued that for ancient societies, before their increase in the division of labor, the type of unit was simply mechanical. Here the degree of similarity between members of society was very high with very minimal levels of difference between them. Individuals had a high sense of right and wrong among themselves simply because they pursued the same goals. That is, they had a middle of paper ......s, with an introduction by George Simpson, The Free Press, New York. Harriet, H 2008, Fundamentalism and Evangelicals, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Hudson, P 2007, The industrial revolution, Cambridge University publishers, Oxford. Jones, RA, 1986, E mile Durkheim, An introduction to four major works, Sage Publications, Newbury Park, California. Marshal, G 1998, 'Dictionary definition, affective individualism', Journal of Dictionary of Sociology, retrieved August 25, 2010 from the Highbeam database. Saha, R & Carr, T 2002, Religious fundamentalism in developing countries, Greenwood Publishers, Chicago. Sorin, R 2005, 'Hanging image of children – reconceptualizing early childhood practices', International Journal in Childhood, Vol. 1, no. 2, p. 57-93. Wiseman, J 2004, World Nation, Australia and the Politics of Globalization, University Press, Cambridge.