Durkheim's Science of Society

Durkheim's Social Theory | Philosophy of Social Science
Emile Durkheim (Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, Weber)

Structure / Agency, Individualism / Holism

Regulation, Integration, Anomie (anomic suicide)
"society worshipping itself", "non-contractual elements of contract"
Solipsism, Language Games
"rain dance"

Fetishism, Proximate & Ultimate Causation, Functional Explanation

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