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Write short note: Subject-matter of Sociology, according to Emile Durkheim.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Sociological Thinkers

In the late nineteenth century sociology was still dissolved into philosophy of history (Auguste Comte), biology and psychology. Émile Durkheim secured its autonomy by giving it a distinct subject-matter, the social fact, and a method suited to it (The Rules of Sociological Method, 1895).

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  • Society as a reality sui generis
  • The social fact
  • Branches of the discipline
  • Method implied by the subject-matter
  • Illustration
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