ABSTRACT
Auguste Comte died in the year before Emile Durkheim was born, and has called the father of modern sociology. The word "sociology" first appeared in one of Comte's volumes entitled, Cours de Philosophie Positive, in which Comte considered that one could discern the natural development of society in accordance with some law within the history of mankind. Durkheim regards sociological method as entirely independent of philosophy: sociology does not need to choose between great hypotheses; all that it requires is that the principle of causality should be applies rigorously to all social phenomena. The individual is able to possess only a parcelle of the social mind, and the collective consciousness comes to mind as something exterior. The education becomes a means of organizing the individual self and the social self, or the homo duplex, into a disciplined, stable, meaningful unity.
