NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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Herbert Spencer
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Max Weber
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Auguste Comte
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None of the above
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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: -Auguste Comte is considered the father of sociology because he was among the first to apply the scientific method to the study of society. This makes him one of the founders, instead of other people who either did not apply the scientific method, or only worked after Comte.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term sociology was first used by Frenchman Auguste Compte in the 1830s when he proposed a synthetic science uniting all knowledge about human activity. In the academic world, sociology is considered one of the social sciences.