SOC-1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Auguste Comte, Bourgeoisie, Social Change
12 Oct 2018
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Auguste comte (1798-1857) - a french philosopher and founder of the discipline of sociology. Comte argued that sociology should model itself after physics, and initially called the subject of social physics. Individual"s place in society and society"s restrictions upon man were referenced to god. Individual believed in whatever he was taught by his ancestors. This stage is know as the stage of investigation, because people started reasoning and questioning although no solid evidence was laid. People could find solutions to social problems and bring them into force despite the proclamations of human rights or prophecy of the will of god. Science started to answer questions in full stretch. "by the complexity of its nature the collective organism of humanity possesses in a high degree the power that the individual organism has only in its rudimentary form, the power of acquiring new, and even essential, organs"
