Editing Social environment (section)

==Milieu/social structure==

[[C. Wright Mills]] contrasted the immediate milieu of jobs/family/neighborhood with the wider formations of the [[social structure]], highlighting in particular a distinction between "the personal troubles of milieu" and the "public crises of social structure".<ref>Quoted in Peter Worsley ed., ''The New Modern Sociology Readings'' (1991) p. 17</ref>

[[Emile Durkheim]] took a wider view of the social environment (''milieu social''), arguing that it contained internalized expectations and representations of social forces/social facts:<ref>P. Hamilton ed., ''Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments, Vol I'' (1990) p. 385-6</ref> "Our whole social environment seems to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds"<ref>Emile Durkheim, ''The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life'' (1971) p. 227</ref> – [[collective representations]].