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

Paperback. Pub Date :1982-12-01 Pages: 274 Language: English Publisher: The Free Press This volume contains the first English translation of Emile Durkheims The Rules of Sociological Method that does justice in terms of accuracy and elegance to the original text. It also brings together his more interesting subsequent statements on the nature and scope of sociology and its method. They take various forms. including contributions to debates and letters and show him confronting critics and seeking to clarify his positions.His successive expositions and defences are instructive . in various ways. In particular they throw light on Durkheims and the Durkheimians project; they make clear where the limits of such a conception of sociology and social science lie; and they suggest what part extra-scientific interests and objectives may have played in its very constitution. There are....