Social facts are ways of acting, thinking, and feeling, external to the individual, and endowed with a power of coercion by reason of which they control him.
— Emile Durkheim Modern

Sociology founder

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The Rules of Sociological Method

Date / Period

1895

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/durkheim.htm

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