Method of study based on observable 'Social facts which can  measured to identify casual relationships

Wanted to be a science beacuse it  would have a better academic  status and seem more reliable.

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Believes that sociology should be like a science and no more philosophying

 We could do this  by observing the visible rather than people's emotions

1. Gather and measure social facts
2. quantify the data
3. Create statistical analysis which creating casual relationships
4. Creat a theory

•  They believe that their methodology is realible and they can create a large scale  quantative represenative date
•  this means there is no bias and the reasearch is reliable

• Quantative method ingores the meaning behind why people act in certain way
• It assumes that  people could be studied in the same way  science study plants and atoms