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Own Quotes by Emile Durkheim
- A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of…
- Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The…
- Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment…
- The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It…
- Although our moral conscience is a part of our consciousness, we do not feel ourselves on an equality with it. In this voice which makes…
- Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product…
- Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
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