Reacton to Eml Durkheim's statement: "Being pragmatic & impirical are requisite to fully under sociological?

Question

Reacton to Eml Durkheim's statement: "Being pragmatic & impirical are requisite to fully under sociological?

Answer 1

'Our ordinary Knowing has before itself only the object which it knows, but does not at first make an object of itself, i.e., of the Knowing. But the whole which is extant in the act of knowing is not the object alone, but also the Ego that knows, and the relation of the Ego and the object to each other, i.e. Consciousness. '

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Answer 2

These are two very important aspects that came to define how early sociologists thought about and formulated basic concepts of this discipline. Empirical really meant that sociologists now had to move from being "arm-chair sociologists" to empirical data. It meant field work and researching the community, not just reading up on them. Pragmatic meant for Durkheim, being objective about the data collected. Not influencing it with the researcher's perspectives but leaving it as it is, or from the way the community views itself.