SOCIOL 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Fact, Anomie, Altruistic Suicide
11 Jun 2014
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Lecture 5 emile durkhein 1858-1917 part 2: soc 3a03 classical social theory, may 22, 2014, agenda. Individual forms of the different types of suicide . There are two different ways that social facts can be identified: First, social facts are general throughout the extent of a given society at a given stage in the evolution of that society (ibid. :67): quotes from the rules of sociological method. Imagine a society of saints, a perfect cloister of exemplary individuals. Crimes, properly so called, will there be unknown; but faults which appear venial to the layman will create there the same scandal that the ordinary offense does in ordinary consciousnesses. (118) He lists rules/guidelines for observing social facts: personal biases and preconceptions must be eliminated; The phenomena under study must be clearly defined: an empirical indicator of the phenomenon under study must be found, social facts must be considered things . (turner, et al.
