Re: Objects and Symbols

Jonathon Epstein (epstein@wfu.edu)
Tue, 30 Jan 1996 12:20:14 -0500

> My question is this: Would Durkheim feel differently? Since
>a social fact is that which is general over all of society whilst having
>an existence of its own independent of its individual manifestations the
>meaning then of a social fact would come, then, from its objective value
>-right?

Right. Durkheim held that social facts were independent, external,
constraining
and sui generis, in other words objects.

Jon
>
Jonathon S. Epstein "Narf"
Department of Sociolgy Pinky
Wake Forest University
Winston Salem, NC 27109
epstein@wfu.edu