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Does scientific method make Sociology a science? Illustrate your answer with Durkheim’s method.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Sociology as a Science

Emile Durkheim set out, more deliberately than any other founding sociologist, to prove that society could be studied with the same rigour as the natural world, and his own procedure is the single best test case for this question.

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  • Treating Social Facts as Things
  • Rejecting Prenotions
  • The Comparative Method
  • Suicide — the Method in Action
  • Does This Actually Make Sociology a Science?
  • Conclusion

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