He developed the notion of objective sui generis "social facts" to delineate a unique empirical object for the science of sociology to study.The variety of positivism that remains dominant today is termed instrumental positivism.. 
Thus the 'sociology of the media' is not a subdiscipline per se, but the media is a common and often-indispensable topic.military sociology AImsms toward the systematic study of the military as a social group rather than as an organization.. 