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Auguste Comte and Positivism
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Auguste Comte coined the term sociology in 1838 and argued society could be studied with the methods used on the physical world — a position called positivism.
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A researcher today testing whether a policy works by measuring outcomes, not by argument alone, is applying Comte's premise.
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Comte coined the term; he did not do sociology's first empirical research.