Practice question · Multiple choice
A retail chain’s churn is 40% yearly. HR files each exit as "personal reasons." What would Durkheim say?
Hints
- What stays constant while all the individuals change?
- Rates that persist as people rotate belong to the system.
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A. A stable 40% rate is a social fact with structural causes
Why
The employees change every year; the rate does not. A pattern that survives complete turnover of its participants is a property of the structure — schedules, pay ladders, management — and that is where the fix lives.
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