Despite his advocacy of quantitative analysis, Comte saw a limit in its ability to help explain social phenomena.

The group championed previous writers they saw as radical ( Arthur Rimbaud, the Comte de Lautréamont, Baudelaire ) and promoted an anti-bourgeois philosophy ( particularly with regards to sex and politics ) which would later lead most of them to join the communist party.

The group championed previous writers they saw as radical ( Arthur Rimbaud, the Comte de Lautréamont, Baudelaire, Raymond Roussel ) and promoted an anti-bourgeois philosophy ( particularly with regards to sex and politics ) which would later lead most of them to join the communist party.

Both Marx and Auguste Comte set out to develop scientifically justified ideologies in the wake of European secularisation and new developments in the philosophies of history and science.

Towards the late 18th century, Mathurin Jacques Brisson ( 1723 – 1806 ) and Comte de Buffon ( 1707 – 1788 ) began new works on birds.

The French were in the process of funding the new Panama Canal Company under Comte Ferdinand de Lesseps.

Strongly influenced by the Utopian socialist Henri Saint-Simon, Comte developed the positive philosophy in an attempt to remedy the social malaise of the French Revolution, calling for a new social doctrine based on the sciences.

After her death in 1846 this love became quasi-religious, and Comte, working closely with Mill ( who was refining his own such system ) developed a new " Religion of Humanity ".

Both Comte and Marx intended to develop, scientifically, a new secular ideology in the wake of European secularisation.

In 1825 a new turn was given to his thoughts and his life by the friendship which he formed with Olinde Rodriguez, who introduced him to the Comte de Saint-Simon.

The next step in the extension of the metro was the opening of three metro stations in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean ( namely Beekkant, the new end of the metro line, Etangs Noirs / Zwarte Vijvers and Comte de Flandre / Graaf van Vlaanderen ).

Early in the new year he suddenly resigned his command, and retired to France-handing over to the Comte d ' Clermont.

His despised brother becomes the new Comte.

Auguste Comte in particular presented a coherent view of social progress and a new discipline to study it — sociology.

Both Comte and Marx intended to develop, scientifically, a new secular ideology in the wake of European secularisation.

When Napoleon escapes from Elba and raises a new army, Hornblower, the Comte and Marie lead a guerrilla fight against the Imperial forces.

Auguste Comte in particular presented a coherent view of social progress and a new discipline to study it -- sociology.

In 1893 he was appointed to the new chair founded at the Collège de France for the exposition of the general history of science, and it was largely due to his inspiration that a statue to Comte was erected in the Place de la Sorbonne in 1902.

In their utopias of social engineering, early socialistic thinkers such as Auguste Comte ( Treatise on Sociology Instituting the Religion of Humanity 1851-54 ) and Henri de Saint-Simon ( New Christianity 1825 ) envisaged a new secular ( or " scientific ") belief-system, analogous to a religion, which would unite the people humanely, and ensure social cohesion.

The term was originally coined in the 19th century by the founding sociologist and philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, and has become a major topic for psychologists ( especially evolutionary psychology researchers ), evolutionary biologists, and ethologists.

Auguste Comte used the term " science social " to describe the field, taken from the ideas of Charles Fourier ; Comte also referred to the field as social physics.

The term " social science " may refer either to the specific sciences of society established by thinkers such as Comte, Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, or more generally to all disciplines outside of " noble science " and arts.

Observing the circular dependence of theory and observation in science, and classifying the sciences in this way, Comte may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.

He refined the positivism originally set forth by Auguste Comte, promoting what could be considered as a form of epistemological realism, as well as the use of the hypothetico-deductive model in social science.

According to Comte, a true social science should stress for empirical facts, as well as induce general scientific laws from the relationship among these facts.

Observing the circular dependence of theory and observation in science, and classifying the sciences in this way, Comte may be regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.

Comte was also the first to distinguish natural philosophy from science explicitly.

" By combining these laws, Comte developed a systematic and hierarchical classification of all sciences, including inorganic physics ( astronomy, earth science and chemistry ) and organic physics ( biology and, for the first time, physique sociale, later renamed sociologie ).

This idea of a special science — not the humanities, not metaphysics — for the social was prominent in the 19th century and not unique to Comte.

The ambitious — many would say grandiose — way that Comte conceived of this special science of the social, however, was unique.

Namely, Comte considered " Anthropology, or true science of Man be the last gradation in the Grand Hierarchy of Abstract Science.

* Angèle Kremer-Marietti, Auguste Comte, la science sociale, Gallimard, 1972 ;

* Angèle Kremer-Marietti, Auguste Comte et la science politique, in Auguste Comte, Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiserla société, L ' Harmattan, 2001 ;

* Angèle Kremer-Marietti, Auguste Comte et la science politique, L ' Harmattan, 2007 ;

Bain established psychology, as influenced by David Hume and Auguste Comte, as a more distinct discipline of science through application of the scientific method.

The term was used again fifty years later by Auguste Comte to refer to the science of society.

A philosopher of science, Comte had proposed a theory of sociocultural evolution that society progresses by a general law of three stages.

Unlike some other classical figures ( Comte, Durkheim ) Weber did not attempt, consciously, to create any specific set of rules governing social sciences in general, or sociology in particular.

" Once a staunch Owenite, Holyoake was strongly influenced by Auguste Comte, the founder of positivism and of modern sociology.

It has recently been discovered that the term " sociology " – a term considered coined by Comte – had already been introduced in 1780, albeit with a different meaning, by the French essayist Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ).

The early sociology of Herbert Spencer came about broadly as a reaction to Comte ; writing after various developments in evolutionary biology, Spencer attempted to reformulate the discipline in what we might now describe as socially Darwinistic terms.

When Auguste Comte discovered that Quetelet had appropriated the term ' social physics ', which Comte had originally introduced, Comte found it necessary to invent the term ' sociologie ' ( sociology ) because he disagreed with Quetelet's collection of statistics.

Auguste Comte, the self-professed founder of modern sociology, put forward the view that the rigorous ordering of confirmable observations alone ought to constitute the realm of human knowledge.

Spencer read with excitement the original positivist sociology of Auguste Comte.

Auguste Comte ( 1798 – 1857 ), known as the " father of sociology " and regarded by some as the first philosopher of science, laid the groundwork for positivism-as well as structural functionalism and social evolutionism.

Most of the 19th century pioneers of social theory and sociology, like Saint-Simon, Comte, Marx, John Stuart Mill or Spencer, never held university posts.

Auguste Comte suggests that sociology is the product of a three-stage development.

And the writings of Comte, whom he admired though critically, must have powerfully co-operated to form in him the habit of regarding economic science as only a single branch of sociology.

In 1875, Sumner became the first to teach a course entitled " sociology " in the English-speaking world, though this course focused on the thought of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer, rather than the formal academic sociology that would be established 20 years later by Émile Durkheim in Europe.

Dilthey was very interested in what we would call sociology today, although he strongly objected to being labelled as such, as the sociology of his time was mainly that of Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer.

The idea to study society as a system can be traced back to the origin of sociology when the emergent idea of functional differentiation has been applied for the first time to society by Auguste Comte.

* Auguste Comte ; who coined the term " sociology " and believed society could be studied like any other science.

Holyoake was influenced by the French philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, notable in the discipline of sociology and famous for the doctrine of positivism.

Auguste Comte, known as father of sociology, formulated the law of three stages: human development progresses from the theological stage, in which nature was mythically conceived and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from supernatural beings, through metaphysical stage in which nature was conceived of as a result of obscure forces and man sought the explanation of natural phenomena from them until the final positive stage in which all abstract and obscure forces are discarded, and natural phenomena are explained by their constant relationship.

Ward also did not favor the radical reshaping of society as proposed by the supporters of the eugenics movement and by the followers of Karl Marx ; like Comte, Ward believed that sociology was the most complex of the sciences and that true sociogenesis was impossible without considerable research and experimentation.

The early sociology of Herbert Spencer came about broadly as a reaction to Comte ; writing after various developments in evolutionary biology, Spencer attempted ( in vain ) to reformulate the discipline in what we might now describe as socially Darwinistic terms.