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Social Facts
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Social facts are the laws, morals, customs, rituals, and rules that exist outside any one person and exert force on everyone's behavior.
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A person who ignores a funeral's dress code feels the pressure immediately, though no law was broken.
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A social fact is external and constraining; a personal habit is neither.