AUGUSTE COMTE

Auguste Comte

Auguste Comte

Augusta Comte (1798-1857) was a French philosopher who is credited with the invention of the field of sociology and sociological positivism. Comte's primary intent in his studies was largely devoted to finding the general laws of society and the mechanisms within it. He did not coin the word “sociology” until 1839, before that he referred to his social science as a “social physics” located within the field of “social physiology”. Nevertheless he claimed to have discovered the basic law of this domain in 1822, a law he baptized as the “law of the three states” within his ...