SOC 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neurasthenia, Industrial Revolution, Data Integration
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Objective because they result from a collective: social facts are the social structures and cultural norms and values that are external to, and coercive over, individuals. Social facts are not attached to any particular individual; nor are they reducible to individual consciousness. Reproduction of society: what (cid:449)ere so(cid:373)e (cid:373)ai(cid:374) the(cid:373)es i(cid:374) durkhei(cid:373)"s (cid:449)ork, priority of social over individual, society can be studied scientifically. Powerpoint notes: objective: extend scope of scientific rationalism to cover human behavior, even if rules/norms are overcome, they can still affect us when we resist them, person has ideas and feelings which come from those around him. He is subject to rules of action lac which he did not make but which he nevertheless respects. If beliefs and practices existed before he did, it follows that they exist outside of him. Examples of things of what durkheim would call objective phenomena or.
