Statistical and social facts from Quetelet to Durkheim

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Sociologist Emile Durkheim opposed the popular assertion of many statisticians of his time that social problems can be explained through statistics and correlations. He believed that social phenomena revealed by statistics had deeper and more complex social explanations. Durkheim represented a sociological thought which was prevalent during the 19th Century among German sociologists. However, such a sociological philosophy eventually died out with the dominance of English sociological methods such as biometry.

Evaluation, Statistics, Statistics (Data)

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Charles Renouvier and Emile Durkheim: "Les Regles de La Methode Sociologique." (Special Issue: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Emile Durkheim's The Rules of Sociological Method)

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Sociologist Emile Durkheim's book 'The Rules of Sociological Method' was strongly influenced by Charles Renouvier's 'Traite de La Methode Socioloque.' Durkheim used Renouvier's sociological logic and methodology to develop his own assertions about sociological phenomena. Consequently, Renouvier's book can be used to analyzed Durkheim's sociological philosophy. Some of the major points extracted by Durkheim from Renouvier's philosophy and methodology are discussed.

Renouvier, Charles

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Collective consciousness, morphology, and collective representations: Durkheim's sociology of knowledge, 1894-1900

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Sociologist Emile Durkheim focused extensively on the the concepts of 'collective consciousness,''sociological morphology' and 'collective representation' in his attempts to study of knowledge acquisition. However, the definitions he used to qualify the three 'concepts' varied throughout his different books. An analysis of the differences in definition of the terms in his 'The Division of Labor in Society' and 'The Rules of Sociological Method' books is presented.

Sociology

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