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The distorted causal lines on the left hand side represent the emergence of a social fact from the action/labour of social beings. Over time a social fact is formed and changes, eventually coming to have a similar causal effect on the people who at one time created it ̶ as is represented in the center section of the figure. The right side of the figure represents the process of changing a social fact through social action, whereby the 'circular' fact takes shape as a 'square' fact.
Source publication
Working paper considering the ways in which concepts of time and space have been employed in classical and contemporary sociological theory.
Contexts in source publication
Context 1
... on the fundamental principle that social facts have a point of origin, or a point of emergence, Marx's sociological theory does not adhere to the same linear conceptions of time as proposed by Durkheim. (See Figure 2 for a visual representation of Marx's non-linear take on time) ...
Context 2
... further the notion of time in social space as the presence of the past in the present (Bourdieu, 2000), it is argued that over time, the day-to-day experiences one has with a social space emerges as a unique sense of the rhythms, regularities, and habits of the environments and the people within (Bourdieu, 2000;Goffman, 1959;Thompson, 1967). A hardened (yet malleable) sense of place that builds up over time (Bourdieu, 2000), what Bergson refers to as an outer 'crust' (sense of self) that builds up as people refract through space (1910: 167) and come into contact with the forces within. ...
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