Durkheim’s Social Facts
• It is a concept created by Durkheim.
• It means something similar to social causes.
• Durkheim studied about Suicide (1897). He said that if he could link individual behavior of
suicide to social facts (social causes), he can make a case of sociology.
• Here he did not studied the individual reason, but was rather interested in the different
causes and suicide rate among groups, regions, countries, and different categories of people (e.g.
married and single).
• For him, it is the nature of social facts that leads to differences in suicide rates.
• Durkheim focused on nonmaterial social facts (e.g. culture, religion, social institutions).
• His another work, The Division of Labor in Society (1893).
• There, he created a concept of collective conscience, which indicates common morality of people.
• He said that in modern society, collective conscience decrease because of complex life.
• For him, the more division of labor in industrial societies grows, the more workers become
specialized in their tasks, the more, what he called, anomie increases.
Durkheim’s Social Facts• It is a concept created by Durkheim.• It means something similar to social causes.• Durkheim studied about Suicide (1897). He said that if he could link individual behavior of suicide to social facts (social causes), he can make a case of sociology.• Here he did not studied the individual reason, but was rather interested in the differentcauses and suicide rate among groups, regions, countries, and different categories of people (e.g. married and single).• For him, it is the nature of social facts that leads to differences in suicide rates.• Durkheim focused on nonmaterial social facts (e.g. culture, religion, social institutions).• His another work, The Division of Labor in Society (1893).• There, he created a concept of collective conscience, which indicates common morality of people.• He said that in modern society, collective conscience decrease because of complex life.• For him, the more division of labor in industrial societies grows, the more workers become specialized in their tasks, the more, what he called, anomie increases.
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