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Accordingly, if we accept the idea of the absolute essentials and prissiness of society, there will be no place left for the idea of the freedom and choice of the individual.

Emile Durkheim, the famous French sociologist, emphasizes the importance of society to the extent of saying that social matters (in fact all the human matters, as against the biological and animal urges and needs, like eating and sleeping) are the products of society, not the products of individual thought and will, and have three characteristics: they are external, compulsive, and general. NOTES: ________________________________ 1. Raymond Aron, Main Currents in Sociological Thought, vol. I, p.