But in America it was not a negligible social fact.
He felt that the sociologist must avoid imposing his own values on social fact.
But it is not yet what sociologists call "a social fact".
There is no social fact or an event that allows the story to be dated.
"The Kids Are All Right" starts from the premise that gay marriage, an issue of ideological contention and cultural strife, is also an established social fact.
Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American weirdness: our literary fiction has all of these things.
In Little Dorrit, Dombey and Son and Bleak House, "the city is shown as at once a social fact and a human landscape.
In defiance of economic logic and social fact, it is their overwhelming faith in the future that hits me between the eyes.
I rolled my eyes, though I was secretly pleased to have this experience vaguely linked to an earlier time, when people wore gloves and dating was a social fact.
Weisser, of course, believes that gun culture is a social fact so deeply grounded in American reality that it is in vain to protest, and that it must instead be understood.
The depth that Arbus gives to that isolation both as a social fact and as a psychological predicament distinguishes her style from the superficial flamboyance of other photographers (now legion) who specialize, fashionably and forgettably, in the grotesque.
