Durkheim
Feb 7, 2013 News
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Durkheim seeks to comply definitively to sociology as a science; It proposes a set of methodological rules that according to him, allow the social facts scientifically. First rule: treat the social facts as things. This Durkheim established that social researcher to see the social fact as a real object and that front must rid itself of any idea or preconceived judgment to study. Durkheim said that to examine the object must be rid of all previous knowledge (has to be objective). Consequences: this first rule emerge from three punto:1) recommends that social researchers strive to consider social facts in its collective aspect, isolated individual demonstrations (because social is independent of the individual). (2) determine the social types. According to Durkheim are unable to speak for society in general, because within it there are several types or social classes (societies).
A social type for Durkheim is a generalization regarding a concrete society, specific. And to define the social types it is necessary to start from the simpler society, meaning one in which eliminating individuals no longer have more than primitive hordes. Starting from there you can go determining social types. (3) Explain the social events by their causes. For Durkheim does not meet with analyzing the purpose of a social fact, necessary addition to know or define the cause that produces it. A rule that he allows separating the normal thing in the pathological within the social phenomenon. According to Durkheim when there are social facts not are distinguished at first sight if it’s a social fact normal or pathological. To know if we are or not, against a normal social fact, we refer to their definition: a social fact is normal when it occurs in most of the individuals that compose the social fact.
