SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Anthony Giddens, Thomas Luckmann, Pierre Bourdieu

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Victoria L Friesen

Document Summary

Week 7 socy 122 readings: social fact (p561-2) Durkheim defined social facts as ways of feeling, thinking, and acting external to and exercising constraint over the individual. Durkheim thought social facts should be treated as things, realities in their own right, with their own laws of organization, apart from individual consciousness. For durkheim, social facts include such phenomena as social institutions (e. g. religion, the state, kinship structures, legal codes) as well as more diffuse phenomena (e. g. mass behavior of crowds, collective trends such as suicide and crime rates). Functionalist and structuralist approaches emerged from these earlier treatments of the factuality of social existence. Efforts by peter berger and thomas luckmann, anthony giddens, pierre. Sociological analysis of suicide has stressed durkheim"s (suicide, 1897/1966) concept of social integration. Marriage and parenting provide a set of responsibilities to spouse (e. g. , giving and receiving emotional support) and children. Religious beliefs and practices tend to be associated with lower suicide risk.