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  2. Social fact - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, social facts are values, cultural norms, and social structures that transcend the individual and can exercise social control. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim defined the term, and argued that the discipline of sociology should be understood as the empirical study of social facts. For Durkheim, social facts "consist of ...

  3. The Rules of Sociological Method - Wikipedia

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    One of the book's challenges is in showing how individual and seemingly chaotic decisions are in fact a result of a larger, more structured system, the pattern being held together by "social facts". [3] The definition of social facts illustrates the holistic paradigm in which Durkheim's social facts are defined by two main features: they are ...

  4. Social reality - Wikipedia

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    For Searle, language was the key to the formation of social reality because "language is precisely designed to be a self-identifying category of institutional facts"; i.e., a system of publicly and widely accepted symbols which "persist through time independently of the urges and inclinations of the participants." [11]

  5. Émile Durkheim - Wikipedia

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    For example, a flag is a physical social fact that is often ingrained with various immaterial social facts (e.g. its meaning and importance). [35] Many social facts, however, have no material form. [35] Even the most "individualistic" or "subjective" phenomena, such as love, freedom, or suicide, were regarded by Durkheim as objective social ...

  6. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    This approach eschews epistemological and metaphysical concerns (such as the nature of social facts) in favour of methodological clarity, replicability, reliability and validity. [63] This positivism is more or less synonymous with quantitative research, and so only resembles older positivism in practice. Since it carries no explicit ...

  7. 25 Social Security facts & figures you need to see - AOL

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  8. Social structure - Wikipedia

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    In the social sciences, social structure is the aggregate of patterned social arrangements in society that are both emergent from and determinant of the actions of individuals. [1] Likewise, society is believed to be grouped into structurally related groups or sets of roles , with different functions, meanings, or purposes.

  9. 31 Surprising Retirement & Social Security Facts You ... - AOL

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    It's never too early to start thinking about how you want to spend your time -- and your money -- in retirement. No matter if you're hoping to retire as early as possible or plan to work until you...