
Ronald Fletcher
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Professor of Sociology, University of Reading, England, 1979–82. Author of Auguste Comte and the Making of Sociology and others.
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Auguste Comte was a French philosopher known as the founder of sociology and of positivism. Comte gave the science of sociology its name and established the new subject in a systematic fashion. Comte’s father, Louis Comte, a tax official, and his mother, Rosalie Boyer, were strongly royalist and…
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