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Émile Durkheim

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Émile Durkheim established sociology as an academic discipline in France — the first university course in the subject (Bordeaux, 1887) and the journal L'Année sociologique (1898) — arguing that objective social facts can be studied scientifically.

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Founding the discipline is not inventing it outright.