SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Human Behavior, Social Forces, Social Fact
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Are systematic idea about the relations between individuals and societies. Theories enable us to see things in a different way. They can encourage us to ask new questions. They often incite action and critical thinking to come up with new approaches. Period of enormous change, marked by key transition. Change from the agriculture to industry based economy. Decline in religious influences on public life. Developed the concept of the social fact. Provided analysis of the roots of social solidarity. Provided analysis of religion as a force in modern life. Regularities and the rules of everyday life that every human community develops. Broader than the social facts but the two terms are largely interchangeable. Human behavior is not natural, but learned. Social factures are important for influence on individual behavior. Suicide (durkheim 1897) was a landmark in the integration social theory and empirical research.
