Figure 2 - The Dynamics of Time and Space in Sociological Theory

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.

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Figure 2: 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.

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