SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Rejection, Bourgeoisie, Southern Sociological Society
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Individual personality is a product of modern freedom: the decline of the intrusion of the collective consciousness in personal affairs. Free individuality is produced by the evolution of the social structure of modernity which has the form of organic solidarity. Therefore, the facts of society sociology"s subject matter cannot be found in the consciousness of either the collective or the individual. Theory of social obligation (covered in previous class) Theory of social facts and supporting arguments. Discussion of the consequences for the methodology of sociology. There are ways of acting, thinking, and feeling which possess the remarkable property of existing outside of the conscious individual middle of pg. Supporting argument: 5 ways externality is possible: duty: fulfilling a role that has existed prior to one"s own existence. Example: fulfilling the role of a brother. Not invented by person, but done by brothers: education/inheritance: some things are learned from an external source.
