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In which year did Durkheim publish The Rules of Sociological Method?
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- It sits between The Division of Labour in Society and Suicide.
- Eighteen ninety-five.
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1895
Why
1895. The order of the three books is deliberate: a substantive study, then the method it implied, then a demonstration that the method works on the least social-looking act imaginable. Durkheim chose suicide precisely because everyone assumed it was purely individual.
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