Teaching UGC NET Mock Test Series 2025 (Paper 1 & 2) Sociology Understanding Society Western Sociologists
Durkheim defined social facts as:
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Ideas and theories that have no basis in the external, physical world
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The way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
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Data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
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Ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that are collective and social in origin