-Anushree Ojha, Subject Matter Expert at Edumarz
Solution: The norms of behavior placed on individuals by collective agreement were the source of social solidarity.
Moral facts are phenomena like any other; they are made up of rules of conduct that are identifiable by specific distinguishing qualities, and they must be feasible to observe, describe, classify, and search for laws that explain them.
For Durkheim, society was a social fact that existed as a moral group separate from the individual.
Individuals were pressured to adhere to the group’s standards and expectations via social solidarity.
Moral codes are expressions of certain social circumstances.
A moral code that is acceptable in one civilization is not acceptable in another.
Moral codes could be used to infer current societal situations. This has elevated sociology to the level of natural sciences, furthering his goal of establishing sociology as a rigorous scientific subject.
It is feasible to discern the rules, standards, and social solidarities that influenced behavior patterns by observing them.
The existence of otherwise “invisible” objects such as concepts, norms, values, and so on can be experimentally proven by looking at people’s social behavior patterns.