“father” of sociology, Comte maintained that thesocial sciencesshould proceed from observations to general laws, very much as (in his view) physics and chemistry do. He was skeptical ofintrospectionin psychology, being convinced that in attending to one’s own mental states, these states would...
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The system of Auguste Comte designed to supersede theology and metaphysics and depending on a hierarchy of the sciences, beginning with mathematics and culminating in sociology. Constructivism (arts) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects us...