SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Social Fact, Operationalization
25 Feb 2014
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* he lost his son andre in the war which affected him deeply: failing health & death. * 1916 had a stroke, 1917 died at the age of 59: durkheim & 21st century, the divison of labour. * we can see this is the social institutions around us i. e. education. * micro-level: in the family there is a division of labour perhaps with household chores: the methodology of sociology. * this approach guides quantitative sociology but also sociology as a whole. * we cannot confuse social facts with statistical facts -->birth & unemployment rates. * governmental level, if they see a high level of unemployment the government will try to intervene. * based on an individual level it affects what people do, whether one looks or does not look for work: studying social facts, emphasized studying social facts empirically. * this basically refers to what can be observed through the senses.
