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Social facts (sovereignty) distinguished from 'brute facts (rocks)

Things like money, refugees, terrorism, human rights, sovereignty etc. may appear as an objective reality, but they are social facts – facts by human agreement, not brute facts like oceans, gravity and rocks.

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Social facts (sovereignty) distinguished from 'brute facts (rocks)
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Ideational factors give meaning to the material world & our politics
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Ideas & beliefs about material factors are most important
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'Reality' = product of shared perceptions, values, ideas
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Social world =shared ideational factors + material factors
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