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Social theory

Durkehim
 'In fact, in nature everything is so closely interconnected that there can be neither a complete division, nor too precise boundaries, between the various sciences.'


 * The difficulty of isolating disciplines

 'Even if they conform to my own sentiments and I feel their reality subjectively, this reality is still objective, for I did not create them, I merely received them through my education.


 * Truth is subjective and according to personal experience
 * Relationship between empirical knowledge and subjectivity
 * The fragility of objectivity

 'The intensity of punishment is greater to the degree that a society belongs to a less developed type - and to the degree that the central power has a more absolute character.'


 * Qualitative approach
 * Scale is crucial to making decisions

'' 'This hierarchy of social types does not imply, however, that the development of societies forms a single and linear sequence. On the contrary, it is certain that it should rather be portrayed as a tree having many branches which differ in greater or lesser degree. But societies are situated at varying heights on this tree, and at variable distances from the common trunk.'''


 * Non-linear thinking
 * New perspective on social structure not as a hierarchy

 'In effect, the degree of objectivity of a sensation is proportionate to the degree of stability of its object; for objectivity depends upon the existence of a constant and identical point of reference to which the representation can be referred, and which makes it possible to eliminate everything which is variable and subjective.'