Which Scholar Argued That Sociologists Must Use Data To Understand Society?
Which Scholar Argued That Sociologists Must Use Data To Understand Society? For Durkheim, social facts were like the facts of the natural sciences. They could be studied without reference to the subjective experience of individuals. He argued that “social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual” (Durkheim, 1895/1964).