The french sociologists
The french sociologistsThe French sociologists (holistic approach), during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were
much concerned with the ‘nature’ of society and of the human social institutions. Their interests
lay rather in what human society essentially is, than in the history of it’s development, either
generally or in particular cases. Thus Comte, like his predecessor and teacher Saint Simon, was
much concerned to stress that societies are systems, not just aggregates of individuals. Since the
societies were look at as systems, they must be made up of interrelated parts. And they believed
that these parts must be related to one another, and to the whole society of which they were parts,
in accordance with laws similar to the laws of nature, which, in principle at least, it should be
possible to discover. So the understanding of society, like the understanding of the physical
organism, was to be achieved by discovering the...
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