Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Law Of Three Stages, Positivism, Atomism
12 Nov 2012
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*don"t have to do chapter 5 for midterm. He came into play right after the french revolution and is concerned with the mess france has got itself into, he wants to stabilize society. He thinks that stability is the key to morality. He has the belief that science is a moral enterprise. Science is going to help him understand how to produce stability which in turn produces moral order. Routine, order and regularity- what humans need according to comte. This means that there is something about sociology that integrates information and puts it together in a new way. He is talking about sociologies relationship to other sciences. A law that talks about the evolution of knowledge or historical changes in epistemology (the way our species has understood things) He said our species began by thinking theologically, then metaphysically and we are now ready to think positivistically (science) Theology- thought about a way that brought them to deity.
