The rules of sociological method : and selected texts on sociology and its method

Preface to this Edition (by Steven Lukes).- Introduction to this Edition (by Steven Lukes).- Durkheim's Life and Works: Timeline 1858-1917.- Suggestions for Further Reading.- The Rules of Sociological Method by Emile Durkheim.- Preface to the First Edition (1895).- Preface to the Second Edition (1901).- Introduction.- 1. What is a Social Fact?.- 2. Rules for the Observation of Social Facts.- 3. Rules for the Distinction of the Normal from the Pathological.- 4. Rules for the Constitution of Social Types.- 5. Rules for the Explanation of Social Facts.- 6. Rules for the Demonstration of Sociological Proof.- 7. Conclusion.- 8. Original Table of Contents.- 9. Subsequent Writings of Emile Durkheim on Sociology and its Method.- 10. Marxism and Sociology: the Materialist Conception of History (1897).- 11. Debate on the Relationship between Ethnology and Sociology (1907).- 12. Debate on Explanation in History and Sociology (1908).- 13. Debate on Political Economy and Sociology (1908).- 14. The Contribution of Sociology to Psychology and Philosophy (1909).- 15. Social Morphology (1909).- 16. Civilization in General and Types of Civilization (1902).- 17. The Method of Sociology (1908).- 18. Society (1917).- 19. Letters about:.- 20. The Psychological Character of Social Facts and their Reality (1895).- 21. The Nature of Society and Causal Explanation (1898).- 22. The Psychological Conception of Society (1901).- 23. The Role of General Sociology (1905).- 24. Influences upon Durkheim's View of Sociology (1907).- Index.