{"id":172,"date":"2020-01-01T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcisnotes.com\/thirdsemester\/?p=172"},"modified":"2021-06-15T07:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T07:18:35","slug":"auguste-comte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcisnotes.com\/thirdsemester\/fundamentals-of-sociology\/auguste-comte\/","title":{"rendered":"Auguste Comte || Introduction to Sociology || Bcis Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major Founders of Sociology<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Major Founders of Sociology are Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, and Max Weber<\/em>. They all have their own kind of characters and contributions in sociology.<\/p>\n

1. Auguste Comte (1798-1857) <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Major<\/strong><\/p>\n

Auguste Comte is a renowned French scholar, social philosopher, a voracious reader. He is called the father of sociology as he coined the term ‘Sociology’. He represents the aristocratic, and law-abiding religious family. He was highly influenced by the European renaissance and the age of positivism prevailed during the 17th and 18th centuries.<\/p>\n

Biography brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Auguste Comte was educated at the Imperial Lycee and Ecole Polytechnique in France. Formally, he was the study of mathematics and physics. He studied the available natural science and social science literature in depth. Fortunately, he got the chance to get the company of Saint Simon<\/em> who was a great social scientist and social thinker and that triggered him to become a co-writer, co-worker, and co-thinker of Saint Simon<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the course of time, he produced some renowned academic books<\/em><\/strong> like:<\/p>\n