This the presentation of Auguste Comte

3. August Comte
Contribution to sociology can be
divided into four categories
Positive philosophy

4. Religion of Humanity.
Classification and ordering of social sciences.
The nature, method and
scope of sociology.
The law of three stages.
Quotes.

5. History
1857 Paris.

6. Why focus on Sociology, what is
science
Is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes
knowledge in the form of testable explanations
and predictions about the universe

8. Sociology studies society in a scientific way. Before the emergence
of sociology, there was no systematic and scientific
attempt to study human society with all its complexities.
Sociology has made it possible to study society in a scientific manner.

9. Comte’s Formulation oF soCiologiCal
Methods

10. Formula

11. Positive Philosophy
It states that society as a whole, and each
particular science
develops through three mentally conceived
stages.

12. Law of three stages

13. Continue… (Law of three stages )
The study of the nature of God and religious belief.)
The theological stage is dominated by a search for the
essential nature of things, and people come to
believe that all phenomena are created and
influenced by gods and supernatural forces.
Monotheism is the ultimate belief of
the theological stage.

15. Monotheism
Polytheism
animism

16. .

17. Positivism
Positivism is a philosophy of science based on the view
that information derived from logical and
mathematical treatments and reports of
sensory experience is the exclusive source of
all authoritative knowledge .

18. Antipositivism

19. Religion of Humanity.
”the state of complete harmony peculiar to human life”
1) doctrine
2) Worship
3) Moral rule

21. Classification and ordering of social sciences.

22. The nature, method and scope of sociology.
The Comparative Method :
Historical Method :
The Case Study Method

23. Quotes

25. http://www.vkmaheshwari.com/WP/?p=694
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/comte/#SocDouSta
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