Durkheim said ‘explain one social fact by another’. Did he in his study of suicide.

Durkheim conceived of sociology as the scientific study of a reality sui generis, a clearly defined group of phenomena different from those studied by all other sciences, biology and psychology included. [1] The term  social fact  used often by Durkheim means “a category of facts which present very special characteristics: they consist of manners of acting, thinking, and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him. [2] It was from this base that Durkheim undertook his study of Suicide….(short extract)