NURSING ANM AND GNM

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SOCIOLOGY

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Who is the founder of sociology? And believed that science could uncover the laws that make society operates?
A
Auguste Comte
B
Karl Marx
C
Herbert Spencer
D
Max Weber
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: -"Comte divided sociology into two main fields, or branches: social statistics, or the study of the forces that hold society together; and social dynamics, or the study of the causes of social change, ‘’ In doing this, society is reconstructed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The new social sciences that Comte sought to establish he first called “social physics; ‘’ later, when he thought that the term had been “stolen” from him by the Belgian social statistician, Adolphe Quetelet, he coined the word “sociology, ‘’ a hybrid term compounded of Latin and Greek parts.

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