Explain social phenomena? Don't paste from Google bcz plagiarism Will be applied on it plz guys hurry up
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- sociology, the term social phenomena refers to the individual, external influences that shape our evolving behaviors and opinions. ... In the case of behavioral social phenomena, actions such as violent crime or war are profoundly influential and life changing.
Answer:
A social phenomenon is any behaviour that responds to other behaviour whether contemporary or historical.
Explanation:
Social phenomena are "social facts" and these are the subject matter of sociology. They have, according to Durkheim, distinctive social characteristics and determinants, which are not amenable to explanations on the biological or psychological level. They are external to any particular individual considered as a biological entity. They endure over time while particular individuals die and are replaced by others. Moreover, they are not only external to the individual, but they are "endowed with coercive power, by . . . which they impose themselves upon him, independent of his individual will." Constraints, whether in the form of laws or customs, come into play whenever social demands are being violated. These sanctions are imposed on individuals and channel and direct their desires and propensities. A social fact can hence be defined as "every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint."