Sociology 2240E Chapter 1,2,7,14: TEXTBOOK NOTES
25 Jan 2017
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Emergence through convergences: the puzzles of social theory. Introduction essay: the deserted island is out of order (did not read) Durkheim"s fundamental preoccupation was investigation and theorizing how societies hold together. Studied the structure and development of numerous social institutions. Each of these played an essential role in the creation and maintenance of social order, or what durkheim often call social solidarity. He saw social structures as functioning to hold society together. For him, social facts expressed the emergent and constraining power of social order. He said: social facts are manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him. Therefore, social facts are things external to us, collective entities that have power over us, enabling us to do something but constraining our ability to do others. He says, as societies grow and become more complex, they move along a path from.
