The rules of sociological method french les regles de la methode sociologique is a book by emile durkheim first published in 1895 it is recognized as being the direct result of durkheims own project of establishing sociology as a positivist social science. The most basic rule of all sociological method durkheim thus concluded is to treat social facts as things from this initial injunction three additional rules for the observation of social facts necessarily follow the first implied in much of the discussion above is that one must systematically discard all preconceptions. Some of the most important rules of sociological methods according to durkheim are as follows rules of sociological methods of durkheim was published in the year 1895 the methodological framework for all of his subsequent work was developed in his the rules of sociological methods