"Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If……" — Emile Durkheim
"Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description."
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Emile Durkheim
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64 Quotes by Emile Durkheim
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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint;…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and…
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which…
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The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he…
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed…
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Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment…
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to…
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There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people…
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He who cannot describe the problem will never find the solution to that problem.
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