Question

Auguste comte is credited with coining the term "sociology," largely through the development of a theory of human thinking called positivism. what does positivism attempt to do?

Answer 1

It attempts to identify laws that describe the behavior of reality. The word positive in the epistemological sense specifies a "value-free" or objective method to the study of humanity that shares much in shared with approaches employed in the natural sciences, as contrasted with "normative", which is revealing of how things should.