The Rules of Sociological Method: And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method

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Content: What is a social fact? -- Rules for the observation of social facts -- Rules for distinguishing between the normal and the pathological -- Rules for the classification of social types -- Rules for the explanation of social facts -- Rules relative to establishing sociological proofs -- Marxism and sociology (the materialist conception of history) (1897) -- Sociology and the social sciences (1903) -- Debate on the relationship between ethnology and sociology (1908) -- Debate on political economy and sociology (1908) -- The contribution of sociology to psychology and philosophy (1909) -- Social morphology (notes) (1899) -- Civilization in general and types of civilization (notes)(1902) -- The method of sociology (notes) (1908) -- Society (notes) (1917) -- The psychological character of social facts and their reality (letter) (1895) -- The nature of society and causal explanation (letter) (1898) -- The psychological conception of society (letter) (1901) -- The role of general sociology (letter) (1905) -- Influences upon Durkheim's view of sociology (letters) 1907).