August Comte is considered the founder of social studies as well as the founder of Sociology. He was the author of the "Law of the Three Stages", or three forms in which human understanding of the world evolves, being the top of it the Positive understanding of the world, which in short words is that based on the knowledge of the scientific rules which command the world and particularly social behaviour.
The industrial revolution, the major changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries might have evidenced this third stage of thinking on Comte's reading of society, because the situation of political, technological an social changes created a situation of ruling the world by sciences and reason, more than theological or methaphysical conceptions.
There are many ways in which conservatism manifested itself in the United States during this time, but a big way was in economics, when conservatives like Reagan thought the government should not regulate business.
