...that this was never lost on Durkheim is plain in the repeated references to this point hi Suicide. "Sociological method, as we practice it, rests wholly...social facts must be studied as things: that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism;...

...reality exists outside of the individual consciousness and will: Sociological method as we practise it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. (Durkheim, 1979, pp. 37-8; orig. pub. 1897) Four types of suicide...

...will appear the chief methodological problems elsewhere stated and examined by us in greater detail.' Indeed, among these questions there is one to which...social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism;...

...to which the following work makes a contribution too important for us to fail to call it immediatelv to the attention of the reader. Sociological method...social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle tor which we have received more criticism;...

...Translation by Margaret Thompson. Sociological method as we practise it is entirely based on the fundamental principle that social facts must be studied as things; that is, as realities external to the individual. No precept has been more challenged, but none is more fundamental....

...philosophy but according to its method. In the memorably succinct words of his preface to Suicide: "Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly...social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual." To whatever extent the definition may have been a rhetorical...