C273 STUDY GUIDE- INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY – Guaranteed 100% PASS

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Auguste Conte *** Suggested we apply scientific method to social world, which is known as Positivism Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function together to func... tion smoothly. (functional analysis) Herbert Spencer *** *Called 2nd founder of sociology *disagreed with Conte, believed sociologists should not guide social reform *societies are evolving from lower to higher form *society's most capable and intelligent members service - the less capable die out *fittest members produce a more advanced society "The survival of the fittest" or "Social Darwinism" (credited to Darwin because he applied it to organisms. Viewed society as a living organism, similar to an animals body - must function together to function smoothly. (functional analysis) [Show More]

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