Sociology 2240E Chapter Notes -Social Fact, System On A Chip, Social Forces
12 Dec 2014
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Priority of the social over the individual society can be studied scientifically. Social facts social facts: the social structures and cultural norms and values that are external to, and coercive of, actors ; subject matter of soc. Are to be treated as things", and studied empirically . Have their own unique character that is not reducible to individual consciousness . Social facts can be explained only by other social facts . Styles of architecture, forms of tech, and legal codes, are the easier to understand of the two because they are directly observable . Indvs are still necessary as a kind of substrate for the nonmaterial social facts, but the particular form and content will be determined by the complex, interactions and not by the indvs . Interactions have own levels of reality; relational realism . His studies were driven by his concern about the moral health" of modern society .
