Concept

Social fact

Overview

sociological term defined by Émile Durkheim

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Sociology
• Protestantism
• Émile Durkheim
• Social control
• The Rules of Sociological Method

Opposing perspectives

• Suicide
• Statistics
• Catholic Church
• Sociology

Place in the tradition

Part of Positivism.

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