Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Hand Washing, Gender Inequality, Feminist Sociology
1 Dec 2012
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The idea is if you have a successful economy, you have a successful society. Economy can cause social problems (rapid social change fort mac) External coercive requirements of how to behave and think. If we want to keep the two parent family, we"ll discourage other forms of family saying they are less successful and whatnot. To discourage women from having children out of wedlock the idea that we do what we"re told and if we break away from that, there will be consequences. Humans need membership and community we provide institutions for that. A social fact is something you yourself cannot transform. Looks at prison rates, employment rates, and infectious disease rates this is a fact humans must be married look at these numbers, thus, this is a fact. Durkheim does not look at what is good for humans on an individual scale, but for humanity as a whole.
