SOCI 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Fact, Norm (Social), Individualism
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Inluence the individual and shape behaviours similar thought and acions in a society. Social facts have a reality apart from the individuals. Argues we can think of this in terms of social facts refracted through individuals in diferent ways. Degrees of consolidaion (long term ingrained social facts vs brief and dissipated social facts) Marriage as a social fact something your supposed to do and if not done detriments are seen in society by going against social norm. Helps deine sociology as its own science. Trying to disinct sociology apart from psychology and biology. They consitute a new species and to them must be exclusively assigned the term social (pg. Deine subject mater by common external characterisics and include all phenomena which corresponds to this deiniion. Deiniions include everything we want to describe in this category. When durkheim deines crime tries to hit on every possible deiniion of crime. Observe social facts in a form isolated from the individual manifestaions.
