coming up with the name “sociology.” Comte helped with furthering the fields of sociology and philosophy. He divided and organized his new science in a formulated fashion, and also started the study of positivism. Comte was born in Montpellier, France on January 19, 1798. His father, Louis Comte, was a public tax official, and both him and his mother, Rosalie, were committed and loyal Roman Catholics as well as supporters of the French monarchy. The French Revolution was in its final stages when
Comte, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber were early thinkers in the development of sociology. Sociology grew out of the social, political, economic, and technological revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Industrial Revolution, in particular, eroded old traditions and necessitated new ways of perceiving and examining the social world. With the success of the natural sciences serving as a model for the social sciences, sociology emerged in Western Europe as a distinct discipline in the
Sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) described religion as ‘a unified system of beliefs and practices (…) which unite into one single moral community called a Church’: for him, ‘the idea of religion is inseparable from that of the Church’ (Durkheim cited in Harvey, 2013, p. 8). This definition fits well with established religion in the past – a strong cohesive force within society, bounding its members together, most often centralised and institutionalised (as the Roman Catholic Church). By contrast
consists of discovering the qualities and characteristics of such social facts, which can be discovered through a quantitative or experimental approach (Durkheim extensively relied on statistics). One can thus argue that Durkheim defended a form of sociological positivism.[7] Method and objectivity In his Rules of the Sociological Method (1895), Durkheim expressed his will to establish a method which would guarantee sociology's truly scientific character. One of the questions raised by the author concerns
Video Notes: The Burning Times After the roman times, women’s continued traditions of the old religion and were leaders, counsellors, visionaries and healers (a.k.a. wise women). The Christian Church and state branded them witches and condemned them as worshippers of the Devil. Idea of witches date back to the Renaissance and the period in history known as the witch craze
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