ANTH 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Auguste Comte, Social Fact
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Discussion 2 notes 09/09/2015 read turner piece for in discussion assignment read all of the gift thoroughly and make notes for paper. Lorenodi: religion plays a very important role it can be a main challenge & she was a women. Sociology was coined by auguste comte: something is only scientific if we know it and calculate it, influenced durkheim. Biology is a scientific function social is distinct from biology and psychology. What is a social fact: if everything in society was a social fact, there wouldn"t. Dukheim didn"t care about the individual: he cared about it as a collective be a science sociology studies collective representations. He wanted to study as a social fact. When i execute a contract or perform my obligations, then it is a social fact. The eradication of all preconceptions is necessary for social sciences. He saw society as calculable and solid. If something is a crime it"s a social fact.
