The Normality of Crime is an excerpt from one of Emile Durkheim’s essays (McIntyre, 2015, p.263). This excerpt is about the division of labor in a society. It is about how crime shapes the way we understand and behave within the society. It is about how crime allows and helps us understand group boundaries. In sociology, social facts are
Cite this chapter. Durkheim, E. (1982). Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts. In: Lukes, S. (eds) The Rules of Sociological Method.
Durkheim advocates to study these social facts relating to the educational process is largely functional perspective (ibid, pp- 215 ). 2) Education as a Socialization Process
Durkheim 1894 challenged these explanations, arguing that such individualistic laws cannot be adequate to explain crowd psychology or other social phenomena. Durkheim argues that “social facts” are autonomous of individuals and have the power to constrain and affect their actions.
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