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What are the problems in observing social facts in Durkheim’s views?

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For Émile Durkheim, social facts are ways of acting, thinking and feeling that are external to individuals and constraining on them. In The Rules of Sociological Method (1895) he asked that they be treated as things. Yet he admitted such facts are hard to observe, and critics found the difficulty deeper still.

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