... introduced in the seventeenth century during the Enlightenment, it was not until French philosopher named Auguste Comte came along that the official term sociology was coined. He used it to define his vision of a new science that would help discover laws of human society that ran parallel to those of the laws of nature. He wanted to use factual investigation, which ... to be very successful in the physical sciences. The most influential and important person in the history of sociology was Karl Marx, who is also credited with developing modern day communism. George Herbert Mead was very ...

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