Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0013 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Social Facts
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The idea
Social facts are the laws, morals, customs, rituals, and rules that exist outside any one person and exert force on everyone's behavior.
In practice
A person who ignores a funeral's dress code feels the pressure immediately, though no law was broken.
Where people slip
A social fact is external and constraining; a personal habit is neither.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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