Abstract:

This article discusses the meaning and role of social solidarity with its new implications for the maintenance of social order in modern societies dominated by liberal economic systems according to Emile Durkheim's theory of social solidarity. In recent years, sociological views on social solidarity and concrete suggestions in the context of social policy have been made simultaneously with alternative economic models based on the culture of solidarity against the capitalist/liberal order. For example, there is an increasing number of entre-preneurial forms in Europe that find more and more new sectors for themselves and are operated with a cooperative mentality. At the forefront of these is solidaristic agricultural enterprises, which is a type of social innovation in agriculture. Such organized social innovations, which discover that social solidarity is a value, reflect the feature of being an alternative to the capitalist/liberal system that destroys the culture of solidarity. The aim of this article is to show that in a process where the norms of solidarity are gradually eroded or forgotten, modern societies can successfully put forward alternative economic models based on solidarity in accordance with the spirit of social innovation as a reaction to traditional capitalist production systems. Accordingly, in this article the characteristics of cooperative agricultural cooperatives operating in the field of "Community Supported Agriculture" will be introduced by referring to the relevant literature. As a result, Durkheim's thesis that social solidarity can emerge through collective movements even in a capitalist-liberal system has been confirmed.