Explain Durkheim’s term “social facts” using specifically his discussion of crime from The Rules of Sociological Method. Be sure to specify how “coercive power” plays into this discussion.
What will be an ideal response?
Specifically, Durkheim maintains there are two different ways that social facts can be identified. First, social facts are “general throughout the extent of a given society” at a given stage in the evolution of that society (Durkheim 1895/1966:xv,13). Second, albeit related, a social fact is marked by “any manner of action . . . capable of exercising over the individual exterior constraint”
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a. people of the same sex.
b. people of different social categories.
c. people of the same social category.
d. people related by birth.
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