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Auguste Comte
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Noun1.Auguste Comte - French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivismAuguste Comte - French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study


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His rewritten history of the sociology of sex provides sufficient evidence that early sociological work on sex does emanate from the 18th century with extensive references to the works of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, August Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Charles Letourneau, and Max Weber, to name a few.
The sociological thought of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) was more than four centuries ahead of that of August Comte (1798-1857), the founder of contemporary Western sociology.
 
 
 
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