Casi siempre con razón, casi siempre mal leído. Las Reglas del Método de Durkheim

Juan Jiménez-Albornoz

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Usually in the right, usually badly read. The Rules of the Method of Durkheim

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Juan Jiménez-Albornoz Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4403-1178

No. 68 (2020): September

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The approach that Durkheim delineates in The Rules of Sociological Method is currently criticized: it is a conservative view that forgets the relevance of agents and it is a social sociology that only observes established order. However, an intensive reading of The Rules shows that their basic statements -about what is a social fact, that they should be treated as things, and that their explanation should be searched in other social facts- are correct one and they can integrate the correct elements argued by its critics. Behind the rejection to Durkheim there is the rejection to a radical statement in The Rules, one that is unbearable for us: that coercion is a natural part of social life.

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Durkheim, rules of sociological method, social facts, explanation, methodology

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Jiménez-Albornoz, J. (2020). Usually in the right, usually badly read. The Rules of the Method of Durkheim. Cinta De Moebio. Revista De Epistemología De Ciencias Sociales, (68), pp. 156–166. Retrieved from https://cintademoebio.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/58587