The Power of Social Facts: Exploring Lisa Wades Perspective

Keshawn Fisher Marci Littlefield Sociology 100 28/01/2024 The Science of the Social Facts: Lisa Wade Terrible According to Wade (Pg 5) social facts are powerful realities brought into existence by humans thus they serve as products of human interaction with persuasive or coercive power that exists externally to any individual. One can also argue that social facts are anything produced collectively by people that exerts a force upon humans. For example handshakes which only exists because traditionally, people across the globe greeted each other by shaking hands thus such a social fact passed from one generation to the other and the practice persists ( Wade, Pg, 5). Shaking hands still persist because it has a persuasive or a coercive power. Wade also associates nature with social facts as humans mold it to suit their ends. For example manicuring backyards and city parks to ensure a habitable environment and humans embrace such a practice and pass it from one generation to the other. From personal experience I can define language, gender roles and fashion and styles as social facts as they are products of a long time tradition and still