The rules of sociological method from wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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. Rules for the observation of social facts in his novum organum 1620 francis bacon discerned a general tendency of the human mind which together with the serious defects of the current learning had to be corrected if his plan for the advancement of scientific knowledge was to succeed. Rules of sociological methods according to durkheim 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