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Durkheim and Social Facts - Foundations of Modern Social Thought

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This lecture examines Durkheim’s methodological rules for establishing and studying social facts. It addresses objectivity, the relationship between correlation and causation, and sociology’s analysis of collective sentiments and values.

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- Chapter 1. Review of Final Test Questions
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- Chapter 2. "The Rules of Sociological Method": Major Themes
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- Chapter 3. When is a "Fact" Social?
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- Chapter 4. Social Facts Observed through Rigorous Discipline
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- Chapter 5. Distinctions between Normal and Pathological
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- Chapter 6. The Question of Causality
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