contributions of Auguste comte
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Comte's main contribution to positivist philosophy falls into five parts: his rigorous adoption of the scientific method; his law of the three states or stages of intellectual development; his classification of the sciences; his conception of the incomplete philosophy of each of these sciences anterior to sociology; ...
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August Comte is called as the father of sociology for his immense contribution in the field.
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- August Comte is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He coined the term 'sociology'.
- He provided the foundations for the study of sociology. He divided the subject into two parts, social statics, i.e the study of forces that hold society together and social dynamics which explains factors which influence social change.
- The law of three stages, is one of the influential contribution of Comte to the social sciences. According to this theory, any branch of knowledge or in particular any society passes through three theoretical stages or conditions. The first being theological, second metaphysical and the third condition is called as scientific or positive. Under the theological stage, he talks about fetishism, polytheism, and monotheism. He characterized the first stage being heavily influenced by supernatural powers, and second stage where imagination and superstitious beliefs being replaced by rational thinking ad the third stage is characterized by influence of science.
- He is one of the major proponents of the positivism ideology. He in fact produced his greatest work 'Positive Philosophy' in six volumes, when he was hospitalized.
- His major books include, Introduction to Positive Philosophy, System of Positive Polity etc.