SOCY 227 Chapter Notes -Sui Generis, Social Fact

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 227
• Professor: G R Frank Pearce

Document Summary

Sui generis and social facts: existing objectively and independently on their own, exist even without human interaction and involvement. Social fact: coercive power on people in society, control individual behaviours. When people leave societies, social facts do not change: social facts create social regularities and social order. Human can be transformed by social facts. Catholics had lower suicide than protestants: that fact was social, not from individual behaviours. Division of labour: division of labour exists in all society, division of labour progresses and society progresses. Societies needs: society is sui generis existing on its own, must produce and reproduce. Each part of society must work in unison. All share the same way of life: conformity, repressive law. Punishing those that go against collective conscious. Crime and punishment intensifies solidarity, confirms the consciousness, brings people closer together to demonstrate the superiority of their values. Totality of beliefs that are common of members in the same society.