Practice mode Development of Sociology and Important Sociologists

Whose view was that sociology is simply the science of social facts?

Correct answer B. Durkheim

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Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method defined sociology as the study of social facts, ways of acting and thinking external to individuals that constrain them.

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