PPAS 4070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Social Fact

• School: York University
• Department: Public Policy and Administration Studies
• Course: PPAS 4070
• Professor: Naomi Couto

Document Summary

Aim: to aid us in an understanding of what religion is. In religious forms, by the time we start to understand a collective conscious around religion, we will then come to an understanding as to why the social life/system will trump it. There can be a system without religious bias, Durkheim says the things that are sacred, are actually social facts, even the sacred and the ideas of god, we have theologies and philosophies, the sacred reminds us that we will die, Facts can be both : concrete, empirical, and, symbolic and analytical.