Social fact
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social-fact-199-14808811
title:
Social fact
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In sociology, social facts are values, cultural norms, and social structures that transcend the individual and can exercise social control. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim defined the term, and argued that the discipline of sociology should be understood as the empirical study of social facts. For Durkheim, social facts "consist of manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him."
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Concept in sociological theory
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fact
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2023-10-13T07:51:05Z
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