 In France, Comte's sociology influence was prominent with Émile Durkheim, whose 1895 "Rules for the Sociological Method" likewise posed natural science as sociology's model.For Durkheim, social phenomena are social functions without psychologism—that is, operating without consciousness of individuals—while Durkheim's sociology was antinaturalist, in that social facts indeed differed from natural facts.Still, according to Durkheim, social representations were real entities to be examined, without prior theory, by assessing raw data and discovering causal laws.