Auguste comte

History

August Comte

Contribution to sociology can be divided into four categories

Positivism

Positive philosophy

Religion of Humanity.

Classification and ordering of social sciences.

The nature, method and scope of sociology.

The law of three stages.

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Quotes.

History

August Comte was born in 1798 .One of the most important French

Philosopher and the founder of Sociology He died in 1857 Paris.

Why focus on Sociology, what is science

Is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations

and predictions about the universe

Science is Concrete

Society is flexible thing, which can change with the passage of time

Society

Sociology studies society in a scientific way. Before the emergence of sociology, there was no systematic and scientific

attempt to study human society with all its complexities. Sociology has made it possible to study society in a scientific manner.

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Comte’s Formulation of Sociological Methods

How are facts about the social world to be gathered and used to develop, as well as to test, theoretical principles?

How to solve the problems ,find solution etc

Formula

Comte suggest the formula to study the society

Experiment

Observation

Historical Analysis

Positive Philosophy

It states that society as a whole, and each particular science

develops through three mentally conceived stages.

Law of three stages

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Theological stage( The study of the nature of God and religious belief.)

The theological stage is dominated by a search for the essential nature of things, and people come to believe that all phenomena are created and influenced by gods and supernatural forces. Monotheism is the ultimate belief of the theological stage.

Examples Through image

Whenever I start looking to the universe then I believe that there is someone who is handling all these things

Monotheism Polytheism animism

Metaphysical Stage.

Positive Stage.

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Positivism

Positivism is a philosophy of science based on the view that information derived from logical and mathematical treatments and reports of

sensory experience is the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge .

Antipositivism

Reject the empirical evidence and scientific knowledgeBecause we can’t observe society with scientific process.

e.g.

Religion of Humanity.

”the state of complete harmony peculiar to human life”

Stages of religion 1) doctrine2) Worship

3) Moral rule

Huqqulah and huqulebad

Classification and ordering of social sciences.

MathematicsAstronomy

PhysicsChemistry

BiologySocial Sciences

The nature, method and scope of sociology.

The Nature

The Scope

The MethodThe Comparative Method :

Historical Method : The Case Study Method

Quotes

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

Education is the art of making man ethical.

http://www.vkmaheshwari.com/WP/?p=694http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/#SocDouSta

I Am Indian And My Religion Is Humanity - Shahrukh Khan

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