Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes -Scientific Method, Anthony Giddens, Auguste Comte
7 Nov 2014
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It concerns itself with theories about the social relations between individuals and groups of people within a particular society: people of importance. People of importance: auguste comte (1798-1857): father of sociology studied changes from the french. Comte looked at the extensive changes brought about by the french revolution and the industrial revolution and tried to make sense of them. He felt that the social sciences that existed at the time, including political science and history, couldn"t adequately explain the chaos and upheaval he saw around him. He decided an entirely new science was needed. He called this new science sociology, which comes from the root word socius, a latin word that means companion or being with others. Comte decided that to understand society, one had to follow certain procedures, which we know now as the scientific method. The scientific method is the use of systematic and specific procedures to test theories in psychology, the natural sciences, and other fields.
