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Sociological Thought                                                  Sukanya Das, Lovely Professional University




                notes             unit-14: contribution in sociological method - sociology
                                             as a science - the concept of social facts





                                     contents
                                     Objectives
                                     Introduction
                                     14.1   Methodology of Durkhiem
                                     14.2   Social Fact
                                     14.3   Summary
                                     14.4   Keywords
                                     14.5   Review Questions
                                     14.6   Further Readings



                                 objectives
                                 After studying this unit, the students will be able to:

                                       y  To know about the study method of Durkheim,
                                       y  The interpretation of sociology in the form of social science,
                                       y  The interpretation of social facts.


                                 introduction

                                 Two years after the publication of the book ‘Division-Labor’ in 1895,  Durkheim  published his other
                                 book ‘The rule of Sociological Method’. In this book Durkheim predicated the intension of social facts.
                                 He says social incidents as social facts. The aim of Durkheim to write this book was to make sociology,
                                 a free science. So he forced upon the study of social facts. In this epic Durkheim defined the method
                                 of study and field, content of sociology. Durkheim believes the social facts out of human in the form
                                 of things. He writes, “The manners of every action are able to effect like external determinant element
                                 on human.”

                                 14.1   methodology of Durkheim

                                 The support of Durkheim is very phenomenal and considerable in sociology at the sight of methodology.
                                 At this sight, his main aim of that sociology was manifested in the form of a free and specific science.
                                 By this viewpoint he was lodge his attention in the improvement of this method. The central subject of
                                 his ideas is that he forced on the study of social incident. By this viewpoint, Durkheim did diatribe of
                                 the famous analysis of psychological and zoological in the method of sociology and ignored them.





                                     Notes     Durkheim writes that sociologist must focus to the study of judge of social-
                                               structural.




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