Emile Durkheim Quotes About Sociology
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Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.
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Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.
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It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.
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There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.
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