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What Are the Reasons Auguste Comte Introduced the Science of “Social Physics� or “Sociology�?



Sociology 701
Professor Lenzer

Fakhria Khanam





About Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte

Although a little less well known than other great thinkers such as Karl Marx or Max Webber, Auguste Comte was the one who coined the term “Sociology�. He had a great mind even though he never received a college level degree. Comte was born at Montpellier, in southwestern France on January 19, 1798. After his schooling years, he was admitted to the École Polytechnique in Paris. French ideals of republicanism and progress was greatly followed by the Polytechnique, this later as we will see had a lasting effect on Auguste Comte. He left this institution when it was undergoing reorganization and closed in 1816. He did......

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