«Translator's note. References to works cited in the Notes have been checked in editions available and in some cases additionsand amendments have been made. W.D.H.» - En p. vi

Introduction (by Steven Lukes) - The rules of sociological method - Writings of Durkheim bearing on his view of sociology and its method - Marxism and sociology: the materialist conception of history (1987) - Sociology and the social sciences (1903) - Debate on the relationship between ethnology and sociology (1907) - Debate on explanation in history and sociology (1908) - Debate on poltical economy and sociology (1908) - The contribution of sociology to psychology and philosophy (1909) - Notes on: Social morphology (1899) - Civilisation in general and types of civilisation (1902) - The method of sociology (1908) - Society (1917) - Letters about: The psychological character of social facts and their reality (1895) - The nature of society and causal explanation (1898) - The psychological conception of society (1901) - The role of general sociology (1905) - Influences upon Durkheim's view of sociology (1907) - Index.