ABSTRACT
[p. 100] It seems that one can reduce all ‘social facts’ to interactions between individuals, and more precisely to interactions which modify the individual in a lasting fashion. Sociology would thus appear as clearly distinct from psychology, although complementary to it: whilst the latter envisages individuals in so far as they are fashioned by hereditary influences (biological and internal) and by adaptation to the physical milieu, sociology only considers them in so far as they are structured by external influences (generations acting on each other) and by their reciprocal adaptations.
