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SOCIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Auguste Comte is credited as being the founder of ____
A
sociology
B
economics
C
modern science
D
political science
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Auguste Comte, in full Isidore-Auguste-Marie-François-Xavier Comte, (born January 19, 1798, Montpellier, France-died September 5, 1857, Paris), French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Introduction. Auguste Comte (b. 1798–d. 1857), mathematician, philosopher of science, grand systematizer of positivism, and in later years founder and High Priest of the Church of Humanity, coined the term sociology, a branch of knowledge he claimed to have established as a positive science.

Detailed explanation-3: -19th century: defining sociology. In 1838, the French scholar Auguste Comte ultimately gave sociology the definition that it holds today. Comte had earlier expressed his work as “social physics", however that term would be appropriated by others such as Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main contribution of Comte to sociology, which he helped to found, was the theory of positivity, which proposes that society and human behavour should be explained with the help of the scientific method.

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