Sociology 2270A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Fact, Individualism, Social Inequality

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2270A/B
• Professor: Robert Nonomura

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Lecture 8: durkheim: morality, religion, & social (dis)order. Ways of thinking, acting, or feeling that are external to us, and that exert a constraint over us in some way. Of course, when i fully consent and conform to them, this constraint is felt only slightly, if at all, and is therefore unnecessary. But it is, nonetheless, an intrinsic characteristic of these facts; the proof of this is that it asserts itself as soon as i try to resist. The moral code: body of ideas, beliefs, and sentiments collective representations that characterize a particular society: collective representations are the source of morality, personality, and the life itself at the human level . For durkheim, the sociology of morality is the study of how this moral code functions within a given community how it shapes their behaviours, bonds, and consciousness: two main forms religion and individualism.