SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Auguste Comte, Scientific Revolution, Scientific Method
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In 18138 comte coined the term sociology: father of sociology august comte, borrowed scientific methodologies and applied to social inquiries, scientific methods to study social life could be used to understand and improve society. Law of three stages: theological stage- dominated by religion, metaphysical stage- abstract speculative thinking that is prominent, posivist stage- scientific theories that prevail. 3 revolutions that contribute to the birth of sociology (scientific, political and. Industrial: sociology brought with it a perspective to understand and manage the social change by these revolutions. Scientific revolution: applying scientific principals to understanding our world, comte believed that scientific principals including scientific observation, experimentation and logic could be applied to understanding the social world we live in, based on positivism. A view that sociology can and should use the methods of the natural sciences (physics and chemistry). Relies on experiments and statistics to reveal the true nature of how society operates. Sees society totally different from natural sciences.
