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Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857)
- French philosopher & mathematician
- raised the question of how
social order was created
and maintained.
- argued case for a scientific method
(positivism) through which the
"laws of social development" could
be discovered.
- argued that all human societies passed through 3 stages.
- the theological
Annotations:
- order based on religious controls & beliefs
- the metaphysical
Annotations:
- transition phase. -- characterised by upheaval & disorder (religious order challenged by emergence of science)
- the positive
Annotations:
- science and reason revealed the true nature of the social world and replaced religion as the basis of the social order.
- the theological
- adopted a "consensus" perspective
which stressed that social order was
created & maintained through
co-operation.
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