SOC 3701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Fact, Auguste Comte, Organicism
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Lecture 9: emile durkheim: social facts, social solidarity. Identify the sources and nature of moral authority as an integrating force in society: ca(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d a perso(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the(cid:373), (cid:271)ut the so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) i(cid:374) (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h the(cid:455) li(cid:448)e (cid:894)(cid:862)the (cid:449)hole is (cid:373)ore tha(cid:374) the su(cid:373) of it parts(cid:863)(cid:895) Anomie: so(cid:272)ial dissolutio(cid:374), (cid:862)(cid:374)o (cid:374)or(cid:373)(cid:863), the (cid:271)reakdo(cid:449)(cid:374) of so(cid:272)ial (cid:374)or(cid:373)s that regulat (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior. Influences: august comte: (cid:272)oi(cid:374)er of the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)so(cid:272)iolog(cid:455)(cid:863); s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)tifi(cid:272) (cid:373)ethods for the stud(cid:455) of society; reason and observation. Science attempted to explain all phenomena through theories based on natural lays. Sociology should have the same goal: to discover the natural lays that determine social stability and change. Facts that originate not in the individual but exist outside and prior to the individual. They impose themselves on people and shape their behavior: have three properties: General: they are general throughout society, are diffused throughout the group.
