Émile Durkheim's focus on social facts illustrates what assumption shared by many anthropologists?
A. Social fact, just like any other fact, can be studied objectively.
B. Culture is more of an idea in people's heads than a social reality.
C. Culture is primarily a psychological and individual phenomenon.
D. Social phenomena studied by anthropologists require study methods that are different from those used by other social scientists.
E. Psychologists study individuals, but anthropologists study individuals as representative of something more: a collective phenomenon that is more than the sum of its parts.
Answer: E
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