This thinker discussed "social facts" and the requirements for sociology to be considered a social science in Rules of the Sociological Method.
This thinker discussed "social facts" and the requirements for sociology to be considered a social science in Rules of the Sociological Method. One of his works distinguished between mechanical and organic solidarity and argued that the transition between those types of societies caused a shift in the title (*) Division of Labor in Society. Another book by this man explained the egotistic, altruistic, and fatalistic types of its title phenomenon, as well as the confusion caused by a concept called the "lack of social norms"; that concept is anomie. For 10 points, name this French sociologist and author of Suicide.
This thinker discussed "social facts" and the requirements for sociology to be considered a social science in Rules of the Sociological Method.
David Émile Durkheim