Social Fact Quotes
- 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… — Emile Durkheim
- In American fiction, belief is like that. Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has… — Paul Elie
- A materialist feminist approach to women's oppression destroys the idea that women are a 'natural group' . . . What the analysis accomplishes on the… — Monique Wittig
- There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. — R. D. Laing