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Originally Posted by Saya
According to Emile Durkheim, what is a social fact?
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Sociology was 'the science of social facts'.
Durkheim made two main distinctions between social facts--material and nonmaterial social facts. Material social facts, he explained, have to do with the physical social structures which exerts influence on the individual. It is something that can be touched emerging because of society's shared belief that it serves a purpose. Nonmaterial social facts are the values, norms and other conceptually held beliefs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_fact
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