The Contribution of Sociology to Psychology and Philosophy (1909)

Abstract

Some misunderstanding has often arisen regarding the way in which we conceive the relationship between sociology and psychology on the one hand, and between sociology and philosophy on the other. The explanations given above will perhaps assist in dispelling some of these misapprehensions.

Extract from Revue de métaphysique et de morale, 17, 1909, pp. 754–8, being the third section of an article entitled ‘Sociologie religieuse et théorie de la connaissance’, which, minus the text translated here, served as Introduction to Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912).