Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Totalitarianism, Organicism, Ideal Type
9 Apr 2013
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He coined positivism- the search for invariant laws of both the natural and social world-laws can be derived from doing research and theorizing about social world (empirical research for comte) He thinks there is a real world and it is the scientists task to discover and report on it, therefore he is a realist. 2 ways to get to real world, one through research, two through theorizing. He believes in pure empiricism through sensory observations and the belief in quantifications. Positivism is under attack and now we are in a post positivistic age. He defines soc as a positivistic science, and relates it to physics, and it builds upon other sciences. He theorized in order to get laws of the social world. He found the french revolution as due to a disorder of intellectual anarchy, he said 3 stages we"re weak and the answer to the intellectual chaos was positivism. Comte said 2 great concerns were order and progress.
