verb. 1  To speak or act in response, as to a question: answer, rejoin, reply, retort, return, riposte. See ask. 2  To act in return to something, as a stimulus: react. See action. 3  To present with a specified reaction: greet, meet1, react. See feelings, greeting.
Social stories are meant to help children understand social situations, expectations, social cues, new activities, and/or social rules. As the name implies, they are brief descriptive stories that provide accurate information regarding a social situation.
Emile Durkheim's ground breaking article What is Social Fact? is one of the better known articulations of the building blocks of functionalist and structuralist sociology. Durkheim defines social facts as predominantly things, that is real agents, that should be at the focal point of the study of society. For Durkheim social facts are everything of social or cultural nature which work to determine an individual's life.