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SOCIOLOGY

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The first social scientist to use the term sociology wasa Frenchman by the name of ____ He was regarded as the Father of Sociology
A
Auguste Comte
B
Karl Marx
C
Max Weber
D
Harriet Martineau
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: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Émile Durkheim, (born April 15, 1858, Épinal, France-died November 15, 1917, Paris), French social scientist who developed a vigorous methodology combining empirical research with sociological theory. He is widely regarded as the founder of the French school of sociology.

Detailed explanation-4: -August Comte: The Father of Sociology The term sociology was first coined in 1780 by the French essayist Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès (1748–1836) in an unpublished manuscript (Fauré et al., 1999). In 1838, the term was reinvented by Auguste Comte (1798–1857).

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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