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- an ideal? ===== Society is a thing ===== Emile Durkheim is one of the most influential advocates for a po... lue. ===== Society is a thing sui generis ===== Durkheim develops a new idea of society that is appropriate for a new social science. Durkheim says that society causes itself. “Society is a re... d has properties of its own which the parts lack (Durkheim [1912] 1995, 15). Consider Rousseau: * How do
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- == Social facts and the essence of society ===== Durkheim says that society is rules, but not rules in the ... y are implicit and automatic, as they were facts (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60). Social facts are just ideas, b... ctive consciousness” which we all participate in (Durkheim [1909] 1982, 238). * Social facts appear to be... ou? 👨💻👩💻🧑💻💻🤖 ===== Society as totality ===== Durkheim sounds like he defines society as a force that co
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- ex// is core to 20th century social science: * Durkheim: “[C]onsider social facts as things” (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 60) * The implicit rules that people within... as external constraints on one’s freedom to act (Durkheim [1895] 1982, 59). * Saussure: Study the structu... enomena, social totalities, closed systems ===== Durkheim and Saussure **do not** agree on everything or sa
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- . Radcliffe-Brown]]. * Radcliffe-Brown brought Durkheim’s ideas into British social anthropology to argue
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- ationality, the state, and modernity ===== While Durkheim and Marx also have their own theories of states,