SOAN 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Theism, Polytheism, Pantheism
15 Jan 2016
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Saint-simon and comte are the official founders of sociology and are directly influenced by bonald. Comte wanted to conserve not only the status quo ante but the status quo middle class society then in the process of emerging and consolidating itself. He wanted to preserve the is each stage in the evolutionary development of society as he saw was necessary to improve social conditions. Simon has been regarded as the founder of socialism. Marx dubbed him as a utopian socialist: he lived and wrote before industrial development had reach the critical point at which the contradictions of capitalism had become clear. However, in marx view simon did not see the conflict of interests between the major classes of the industrial system and treated them as one big class with common interest. Some argue that there is no difference between simon and comte.
