Multiple choice

Consider the following statements: According the Raymond Firth, a social organization is concerned with choices and decisions involved irt actual social relations; while the concept of social structures deals with 1. Social facts which are distinct from individual facts and are external to the individual. 2. An arrangement of parts related to one another in some sort in a larger unity.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Raymond Firth distinguished between social organization (the actual choices and decisions made in social relations) and social structure (the underlying, relatively stable arrangement of parts). Statement 1 describes Durkheim's concept of social facts, not Firth's definition of social structure.

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