Durkheim's social solidarity includes mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity
Please refer Donald R Fesslers' writings , esp " The development of scale for measuring community Solidarity and article SELF-DISCLOSURE AND INTERPERSONAL SOLIDARITY: MEASUREMENT, VALIDATION, AND RELATIONSHIPS Authors LAWRENCE R. WHEELESS......pls reveal ,whether suggested are useful or not
No big deal! Throughout his works, Durkheim had been interested in social solidarity, cohesion and integration. In his phenomenal work, The Division of Labour in Society (1893), while discussing the evolution of societies, he talks of two types of solidarity manifested in two different types of societies. First being the mechanical solidarity, whereby the indicators would be strong family and kinship ties, small scale production, similar kind of work, low population density, strong influence of religion, repressive laws etc. While indicators of Organic solidarity would be high division of labour, high population density, interdependence, restitutive laws, mostly secular etc..I hope that answers your question. Feel free to ask if you have any doubt.
You may also have insterest in reading Ferdinand Tönnies' theory on social solidarity. See his "communauty" and "society" variables:
https://books.google.cm/books/about/Community_and_Society.html?id=sKcITieRERYC&redir_esc=y
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