This thinker defined a concept consisting of "manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual" as the primary focus of his area of study, and emphasized that that concept should be thought of as a "thing." This man argued that a shift from mechanical to organic solidarity was caused by industrial society's use of the division of labor. This man wrote a book outlining altruistic, egoistic, anomic, and fatalistic forms of a phenomenon he found to be more common among Protestants than among Catholics. This thinker argued for applying the scientific method to social facts in hi
This thinker defined a concept consisting of "manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual" as the primary focus of his area of study, and emphasized that that concept should be thought of as a "thing." This man argued that a shift from mechanical to organic solidarity was caused by industrial society's use of the division of labor. This man wrote a book outlining altruistic, egoistic, anomic, and fatalistic forms of a phenomenon he found to be more common among Protestants than among Catholics. This thinker argued for applying the scientific method to social facts in his The Rules of Sociological Method. For 10 points, name this French sociologist who wrote Suicide.
This thinker defined a concept consisting of "manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual" as the primary focus of his area of study, and emphasized that that concept should be thought of as a "thing.