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durkheim's philosophy of social science  

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  • Émile Durkheim's philosophy of social science defines the goals and methods of his sociology. He sought to explain social facts in terms of social causes, which were to be discovered through testing causal hypotheses against the facts. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Durkheim's Philosophy of Social Science]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-KJLJ4D6D-7

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