My glorious padlet by Usic https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679 Made with mirth en-us 2022-02-04 09:50:21 UTC 2022-02-04 10:19:44 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. What are the main characteristics of social facts? 2. What impact do social facts have on our lives? 3. What does Durkheim say about our ability to observe social facts? Make sure you understand what ‘intangible’ and ‘infer’ mean. 4. Why could we call Durkheim a ‘positivist’? usictech https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029155062 2022-02-04 09:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029155062 Group 2 Monaruby https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186282 1) Social facts are collective ways of acting, thinking or feeling. They should not be dependent on an individual but rather an independent variable that exists out of a person's conscious mind. They often involve obligation, especially when people feel that they are acting out of their free will even though they are simply acting out a pattern that is generally part of society. It is passed down from generation to generation.

2) Social facts are external factors that shape a person's behaviour. It is passed down through generations and is received by particular individuals in order to influence them to follow a pattern in society. This compelling and coercive power often forces us to do things subconsciously. Individuals tend to build their personalities subconsciously without knowing that their personality was based on social expectations. 

3) Durkheim claims that social facts can be observed by a large number of people who acts similarly. While we are not able to observe the object, however, we are able to observe the effects of the object, in which case, Durkheim emphasizes that it is very difficult to observe as they are only observable through their effects.

4) Durkheim is a Positivist because he believes that social science can and should be observed from a rational point of view that is dependent on quantitive and qualitive data instead of tradition or religious ideas. He believed that the observations of the effects of society should be in line with the methodology of natural science. Using direct observations on a large scale of society, we would be able to create theories on how it would affect society.
]]> 2022-02-04 10:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186282 Group6（Abigel ， Hao Liu，Kehan Li） kli681 https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186759 1. Social facts are collective ways of acting, thinking, or feeling. They most often involve a sense of obligation
2.social facts also have a ‘compelling and coercive power’
influence the mind and will
3.social facts are hard to observe and need to be discovered indirectly or through human behavior
4. invisible and intangible and their properties have to be discovered indirectly.





]]> 2022-02-04 10:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186759 Group 4 (Hayden, Cara, Kevin, Hong Xiang) pau13 https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186781 1. Social facts are patterns of behaviour in a group that is simultaneously shaping and shaped by the individuals in it. They cannot be directly observed, and has a regulatory effect on people.

2. Social facts often has a normative effect on our lives. Our behaviours and decision-making are often unconciously influenced by the patterns of behaviour in our own social group. For example, one is less likely to wear a mask when everyone else in his social circle aren't doing so. 

3. Durkheim opines that given their intangible nature, we can never directly observe social facts as such, but could only catch a glimpse of them through their effects on people. For example, the social fact of "womanhood" could never be directly observed, but we could only infer from the dress code, speech, and behaviour of general women in the society. 

4. A 'positivist' in social science refers to a person who believes that general social laws could be derived or inferred from observations of human society. Durkheim, being a student of Comte, is generally regarded as a positivist in that he believes certain social facts could be drawn from observing the patterns of behaviour in human society, and that social science should a adopt a scientific, analytical methodology using quantitative data. ]]> 2022-02-04 10:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186781 Group1(Xuanxuan ,Anqi ,sheida,jihyun） zhuang101 https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186799 1.  They are not unique to particular individuals ,originating outside the consciousness of the individuals and most often involve a sense of obligation .In addition,social facts are external to individual.They are coercive, have confinement on human behaviours.
2.social facts might ‘compelling and coercive power’  ,expressed in punishment, disapproval, rejection, or simply the failure of an action to achieve its goal. 
3.He thinks observing social facts is difficult, people need to observe individuals instead of the whole. for example, if a person wants to search for the characteristics of a certain dynasty, he should study a specific historical event in a certain dynasty.The intangible means that social facts, it must be found through indirect contact. 
4. Because he believed that human societies can be investigated in the way as natural scientists do. He thought if we could discover the hidden logics on society, then it is able to understand individuals' behaviours. Also, he saw a society as a system and social phenomena are observed from the functions of the society.

]]> 2022-02-04 10:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029186799 Group 5 mmalkhaaldi1 https://padlet.com/usictech/w2gm8bz1fxlv6679/wish/2029189570 What are the main characteristics of social facts?  
Social facts come from outside the consciousness of the people who act and think they consist of:
-Thinking 
-Manners of acting 
-External to individual 

What impact do social facts have on our lives?  
Social facts impacts our lives my giving us a sense of obligation. You might feel like your actions are purely from free will, however it's possible you are going after a certain pattern in the society. Your personality becomes influenced by societies expectations. 

 What does Durkheim say about our ability to observe social facts? Make sure you understand what ‘intangible’ and ‘infer’ mean.  

He highlights the difficulty of observing social facts. One of the ways that we can observe them are through their impacts. The example given was 
“observe the role of husband but only particular individuals acting as husbands.”

"Social facts are, in general, invisible and intangible"
intangible: cant be touched 
"we may be able to infer the existence of" the role of husband
infer: conclude

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