SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Auguste Comte, Fetishism, Polytheism
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The birth of sociology in the age of revolution: Traditional society had been a world of magic, mystery, and irrational authority. In contrast, modern society had entered a new world of enlightenment. Was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. Sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Through the use of reason and rationality, people began to discover (cid:498)true(cid:499) knowledge. Social theorist that invented the term (cid:498)sociology(cid:499) )ntended to create a (cid:498)science(cid:499) of society that would allow us to understand social life the. The world (cid:498)science(cid:499) was used deliberately to give sociology high status among other branches of knowledge, because (cid:498)science(cid:499) ruled systemic thought (cid:523)theories(cid:524), scientist had (cid:498)discovered(cid:499) that natural laws made the world. Comte say that there was a (cid:498)law: according to which social thinking necessarily passed.
