“When, then, the sociologist undertakes the investigation of some order of social facts, he must endeavour to consider them from an aspect that is independent of their individual manifestations.”

Source: Rules of Sociological Method, 1895, p. 45

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French sociologist (1858-1917) 1858–1917

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