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total social fact: a standalone construct

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totalsocial fact1 CONSTRUCTTotal social factMAUSS · SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Social anthropology

a phenomenon, such as gift exchange, that engages a society's legal, economic, religious, moral and aesthetic institutions all at once.

In social anthropology, total social fact refers to a phenomenon, such as gift exchange, that engages a society's legal, economic, religious, moral and aesthetic institutions all at once. This meaning comes from Mauss (2002) in The Gift.[1]

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  1. Mauss, M. (2002). The Gift. Routledge. Open Library record

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