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Durkheim argued that society is more than the sum of individual acts. Discuss.

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  • Sociological Thinkers

Émile Durkheim built sociology on the claim that society is a reality sui generis, a reality of its own kind. Against Herbert Spencer's view of society as a web of contracts between individuals, he held that association produces properties that no individual possesses, and these must be studied by a separate science.

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