Durkheim believes that the research object of sociology is social facts. Durkheim, whose original name was Emile Durkheim, was a French Jewish sociologist, anthropologist and the founder of Sociological Yearbook. Durkay established an independent research object and method for sociology, which is different from philosophy, physiology and psychology, that is, social facts. Extended information Durkheim believes that the research object of sociology is social facts, which have characteristics and special determinants different from natural phenomena and physiological phenomena. Its existence does not depend on individuals, but is caused by previous social facts. Social facts have four characteristics: externality, compulsion, objectivity and universality. Durka's "general sociology" theory has four stages of development. The first stage is the early formalism stage: the theory of social division of labor (1893); Early comprehensive stage: sociological method specification (1895) and suicide theory (1897); Transition stage: individual representative and collective representative (1899), moral education (1902- 1903), and moral fact determination (1907); The new general position: the basic form of religious life (19 12).