Tag: Émile Durkheim
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From Being to Society: How Philosophy Gave Birth to Sociology
The history of sociology is often presented as the story of a new science born in nineteenth-century Europe to study industrialization, urbanization and capitalism. While this account is not wrong, it misses a deeper intellectual transformation. Sociology did not emerge from nowhere. It emerged from a long philosophical struggle over the nature of reality itself.…
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The limits of quantitative research in social sciences
“If there is no net force on an object, then its velocity is constant. The object is either at rest (if its velocity is equal to zero), or it moves with constant speed in a single direction“. First Newton law The mastering of the so called “law-like generalizations” (Saunders et at, 2009) produced within natural science…