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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note : Sociology as a science of society.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Sociology as a Science

Auguste Comte conceived the discipline that would become sociology as the completion of human knowledge — a science of society built with the same rigour physics, chemistry, and biology had already achieved.

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  • From Social Physics to Sociology
  • The Law of Three Stages Completed at the Level of Society
  • Sociology as the "Queen of the Sciences"
  • Value Addition
  • Conclusion

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