{"id":207887,"date":"2025-04-25T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=207887"},"modified":"2025-04-25T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:56:31","slug":"according-to-durkheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/25\/according-to-durkheim\/","title":{"rendered":"According to Durkheim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to Durkheim, which of the following is NOT a social fact?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A religious belief<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A religious belief, law, and custom are all social facts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A custom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A law<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is :<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The correct answer is: <strong>A religious belief, law, and custom are all social facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c9mile Durkheim, a founding figure in sociology, introduced the concept of <strong>social facts<\/strong> in his seminal work <em>The Rules of Sociological Method<\/em> (1895). According to Durkheim, <strong>social facts are ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside the individual but exert control over each person.<\/strong> They are external to and coercive of individuals, meaning they exist in the collective consciousness of society and guide individual behavior through social norms and expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Examples of social facts include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Religious beliefs<\/strong>: These are not just personal opinions but shared understandings that influence behavior and social norms within a group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Laws<\/strong>: These are formalized norms codified by legal institutions that exert control through enforcement and punishment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Customs<\/strong>: These are informal norms that govern behavior in society through tradition and cultural expectations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of these\u2014religious beliefs, laws, and customs\u2014fits Durkheim\u2019s definition of a social fact because they are <strong>collectively created, culturally transmitted, and socially enforced.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>incorrect choice in the question<\/strong>, therefore, is the one that <strong>claims all three are social facts<\/strong>, phrased as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;A religious belief, law, and custom are all social facts&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a <strong>trick option<\/strong> because it is <strong>actually a true statement<\/strong>, not something that is &#8220;NOT&#8221; a social fact. Since the question asks which is <strong>NOT<\/strong> a social fact, the correct answer is this <strong>false negative statement<\/strong>, as it <strong>does not represent something that is NOT a social fact<\/strong>\u2014it asserts (correctly) that all listed items are social facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Durkheim considered <strong>religious beliefs, laws, and customs<\/strong> to all be social facts. Thus, the <strong>correct answer<\/strong>, based on how the question is structured, is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;A religious belief, law, and custom are all social facts&#8221;<\/strong>, because this option contradicts the question&#8217;s request to identify something that is <strong>NOT<\/strong> a social fact.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Durkheim, which of the following is NOT a social fact? 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