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Émile Durkheim
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Social facts are real, external, and coercive—and sociology becomes a science only by treating them as things, not ideas.
obedience-and-authority
A social fact is any way of acting capable of exerting over the individual an external constraint, independent of its individual manifestations.
VLA-6F9E6074-RC-060Institutions bear down upon us, and yet we love them; they place constraints upon us, and yet we find satisfaction in that very constraint.
VLA-6F9E6074-RC-050self-and-identity
What constitutes social facts are the beliefs, tendencies and practices of the group taken collectively, not their individual incarnations.
VLA-6F9E6074-RC-056Social phenomena, although not material things, are nevertheless real ones requiring to be studied, with character independent of individual arbitrariness.
VLA-6F9E6074-RC-049belonging
If partial societies are fused within the total society, the ambit of social life has been enlarged, drawing population elements more closely together.
VLA-6F9E6074-RC-131Collective habits crystallize into legal or moral rules, popular sayings, facts of social structure—a fixed object, constant standard always to hand.
VLA-6F9E6074-RC-082Illuminates
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