Auguste Comte was a French thinker who coined the term "sociology." He is remembered for being the first to apply the scientific method to the social world. Wikipedia
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Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is the initiator of sociology and scientific ethics. He founded the Religion of Humanity, a non-theistic religion. He invented altruism and advocated separation of the spiritual and the temporal. membres.lycos.fr/clotilde/