Hello Briana, I really enjoyed reading you post, especially because it helped understand more clearly how mechanical and organic solidarity works. You gave good example for both, thank you. Going back to Durkheim’s argument about social facts had an existence of their own, I agree with you. We as individuals adapted to the culture we are used to right now, and can easily gain social facts from other cultures by socialization. It can either be another cultures behaviors, in the way of thinking of even feeling. I also wrote that Durkheim would consider the unemployment rate as a social fact, just because many people are greatly affected by it, causing them stress, sometimes even depression. The larger the unemployment rates, the larger the chance
