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| ==== tl;dr Durkheim creates an empirical social science to replace normative theories of society ==== | ==== tl;dr Durkheim creates an empirical social science to replace normative theories of society ==== | ||
| - | For Durkheim, | + | These are Durkheim's principles: |
| - | * society | + | * Society |
| - | * a society is a whole which is greater than the sum of its parts, like a big brain that thinks for you. | + | * A society is **a whole** which is greater than the sum of its parts, like a **big brain** that thinks for you. |
| - | * a society is like an organism. The parts of society work together to sustain the life of the whole. These parts are functionally interconnected (like the gears of a machine). | + | * A society is like an **organism**. The parts of society work together to sustain the life of the whole. These parts are **functionally interconnected** (like the gears of a machine). |
| * A society’s own normative ideas about how to live (its social norms) are not deliberate choices or designs. They are constructs of a collective mind. | * A society’s own normative ideas about how to live (its social norms) are not deliberate choices or designs. They are constructs of a collective mind. | ||
| - | * Observers need to look for evidence of them in the data of people’s behavior; we aren’t here to debate the people we study. Although Rousseau and Durkheim have different purposes, I think Rousseau’s ideas have had an important influence on empirical theories of society. More on that later… | + | * Observers need to look for evidence of them in the data of people’s behavior; we aren’t here to debate the people we study. |
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| + | Although Rousseau and Durkheim have different purposes, I think Rousseau’s ideas have had an important influence on empirical theories of society. More on that later… | ||
| ===== What makes me me? ===== | ===== What makes me me? ===== | ||
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| ===== Breaching experiments ===== | ===== Breaching experiments ===== | ||
| - | Harold Garfinkel asked his students to conduct “[[:breaching_experiments|breaching experiments]]” as a way to “[make] commonplace scenes visible” (Garfinkel 1967, 36). | + | Harold Garfinkel asked his students to conduct “[[:breaching_experiment|breaching experiments]]” as a way to “[make] commonplace scenes visible” (Garfinkel 1967, 36). |
| * Students went home on the holidays and pretended that they were staying at a bed and breakfast as a paying guest. | * Students went home on the holidays and pretended that they were staying at a bed and breakfast as a paying guest. | ||
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| ===== References and further reading ===== | ===== References and further reading ===== | ||
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| + | “Chocolate Is the Most Popular Ice Cream Flavor.” 2018. YouGov. July 11, 2018. https:// | ||
| Durkheim, Emile. (1893) 1933. //The division of labor in society//. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press. http:// | Durkheim, Emile. (1893) 1933. //The division of labor in society//. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press. http:// | ||
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