NURSING ANM AND GNM

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SOCIOLOGY

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This founder of Sociology is credited with bringing the idea of positivism to studying society.
A
Herbert Spencer
B
Auguste Comte
C
Jane Addams
D
Emile Durkheim
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who founded sociology, or the scientific study of society. He believed in positivism, which is the idea that only scientific truth is the real truth.

Detailed explanation-2: -positivism, in Western philosophy, generally, any system that confines itself to the data of experience and excludes a priori or metaphysical speculations. More narrowly, the term designates the thought of the French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798–1857).

Detailed explanation-3: -Auguste Comte is best known for being the founder of sociology and positivism. Comte was concerned about the Western world’s transition to modernity. To explain that social change is caused by a shift in how we interpret reality, he used the model of the Law of the Three Stages of the Human Mind.

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