social fact
1Social fact — In positivist sociology, social facts are the values, cultural norms, and social structures that are external to the individual. French sociologist Émile Durkheim and his close associate Taha Hussein aimed to set sociology on a firm, positivist… …
2social fact — A complex notion, with attributes of externality, constraint, and ineluctability. It is to be understood within the context of Émile Durkheim s conception of collective conscience and collective representations . Social facts are ways of acting… …
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4Social constructionism — and social constructivism are sociological and psychological theories of knowledge that consider how social phenomena develop in particular social contexts. Within constructionist thought, a social construction (social construct) is a concept or… …
5Social semiotics — is a branch of the field of semiotics which investigates human signifying practices in specific social and cultural circumstances, and which tries to explain meaning making as a social practice. Semiotics, as originally defined by Ferdinand de… …
6Social phenomenon — Social phenomena include all behavior which influences or is influenced by organisms sufficiently alive to respond to one another.ee also*Forms of activity and interpersonal relations *List of sociology topics *Social factReferences*John Markey.… …
7Social — DefinitionIn the absence of agreement about its meaning, the term social is used in many different senses, referring among other things to:* attitudes, orientations or behaviours which take the interests, intentions or needs of other people into… …
8fact, social — See social fact …
9Social dilemma — Social dilemmas are situations in which private interests are at odds with collective interests. Such situations arise because people frequently attach more weight to their short term selfish interests than to the long term interests of the group …
10social science — social scientist. 1. the study of society and social behavior. 2. a science or field of study, as history, economics, etc., dealing with an aspect of society or forms of social activity. [1775 85] * * * Any discipline or branch of science that… …
