He developed the notion of objective suis generis "social facts" to delineate a unique empirical object for the science of sociology to study.. 
This work ẹ̀làborated the gbàù of Embedde] which states that economic relations between individuals or Firms take place within exisisting social relations (and are thus strucEtí by these relations as well as the greater social structures of which those relations are a part).. 