SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Auguste Comte, Dialectic, Social Order
19 Sep 2016
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The development of french sociology: the ideas of claude henri de saint-simon, the ideas of auguste comte. C: use of the term sociology , the law of 3 stages, social order and disorder. Introduction the the work of emile durkheim (influenced by enlightment, comte and conservative reaction to englightment) Argument that sociology should model itself after natural sciences (physics, etc) Durkheim developed methodology for sociology and set it out on a book called the. Rules of sociological method (he indicates in the book that sociologists need to look for patterns or regularities in societies and this can be seen in statistics) Durkheim did entire study based on suicide statistics. Durkheim argued sociologists need to collect objective data, and engage in analysis of cause and effect. Durkheim and comte was oriented towards social order!!! Durkheim was interested in how different parts of society work together to maintain society and thereby insures social solidarity!
