I am sorry, but I think looking at Durkheim within the context of a sociology-philosophy dichotomy is rather simplistic. How can we make sense of Durkheim's social epistemology and analytical methodology without paying attention to his engagement with the philosophical discourses in his time? Durkheimian epistemology (which I found problematic by the way... among the classical patriarchs, Marx's sociology of knowledge is far more impressive... Marx, though not a professional sociologist, still remains the sociologist of all sociologists) emerged from his serious philosophical studies of Kant, Spinoza, the positivists, the empiricists, among others.
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