Durkheim

Emile Durkheim annotates how complex is the system of social facts. He differentiates between two types of social facts; there are non-material social facts such as morality, collective conscience, social currents and culture, which is comprised of norms and values. Secondly, there are material social facts, these are generally understood as real material entities, such as society itself, structural components of society, as in the church and state and the law. I found it very interesting to read about social facts from Durkheim's perspective. It never occurred to me that social fact was being used for anything used in the social constructs of humanity, when in fact such a large generalization is misused. To read that there are many subsets of society and social fact was

In his manuscript, The Division of Labor, the onslaught of capitalism and modernization in Europe creates a system where legality and morality are compromised. The social unrest is due to both economic and social factors, which include disrupted working relations between worker and boss, owing to the new individualistic race for wage-labor as characterized by capitalism, and the individuals distancing from their moral and sacred values. Durkheim is extremely concerned about the fact that this new utilitarian society leaves people without any true beliefs or stronghold in society. Everyone lives in the world of the profane, which lacks morals, ideals, and values so essential to human existence. It is drawing from this concern that Durkheim presents his idea for the reorganization of society around a strong center of sacred ideologies, practices, and norms.