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ncontractual basis for contracts**. ===== Social facts are things ===== There are indeed many unstated ... thinking about them. Durkheim calls them “social facts” (Durkheim [1895] 1982). * Signing your name o... Sure. But then what happens? ===== Why do social facts feel like natural facts? ===== * Social facts are simply ideas, but they seem real. They appear to ea

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social science: * Durkheim: “[C]onsider social facts as things” (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60) * The i... e collective consciousness of society, or “social facts.” * Social facts appear to each person as external constraints on one’s freedom to act (Durkheim [18

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and is inaccesible to the individual mind Social facts are just ideas, but to an individual they appear ... eech they hear. **Language is a system of social facts** in the minds of the people who speak it. This

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quilibrium among different tendencies. * Social facts function to maintain this dynamic balance. * In