SOCI 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Auguste Comte, Clergy, Ethnocentrism
3 Nov 2016
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Classical social theory experience, data, etc. events (hypotheses) Theories are different from opinions and intuitions. Opinions and intuitions lack evidence and are not subject to being disproved. Theories are made for testable assumptions untended to predict future. For example, people are poor because they don"t work hard enough. Sociologists don"t care what you think or believe, it has to be backed up by. Ology the society of (cid:498)auguste comte(cid:499) the father of sociology (1798-1857) To disprove a theory, you only need one negative outcome. You can never truly prove a theory. They believe in a knowledgeable objective reality. Comte is most famous for saying there are 3 developments of human thinking in society. The 3 developments of human thinking: theoretical stage. Humans like explanations, because uncertainty makes us uncomfortable. Religion (god, demons and mythological beings) is the primary means of understanding. The belief that you want to understand things that happen with things you cant see.
