What are the contributions of auguste comte,emil durkheim (sociological thinkers) towards rural sociology?
Auguste Comte (full name: Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte; January 17, 1798 – September 5, 1857) was a French thinker who coined the term “sociology.” He is remembered for being the first to apply the scientific method to the social world. One universal law that Comte saw at work in all sciences he called the ‘law of three phases’. It is by his statement of this law that he is best known in the English-speaking world; namely, that society has gone through three phases: Theological, Metaphysical, and Scientific. To the last of these he also gave the name “Positive,” because of the polysemous connotations of that word. The Theological phase was seen from the perspective of 19th century France as preceding the Enlightenment, in which man’s place in society and society’s restrictions upon man were referenced to God. By the “Metaphysical” phase, he was not referring to the Metaphysics of Aristotle or any other ancient Greek philosopher, but for Comte was rooted in the problems o
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