why is Auguste Comte regarded as the founding father of sociology?

Answer 1

Secretary and disciple of Saint-Simon, Comte is regarded as the founding father of sociology. According to Comte, society should be analyzed as "organisms" with their own linear progress (through religious, metaphysical and scientific stages). The "positivist" or "empirical" method of sociological analysis could (only) be applied to this final, scientific stage. He disputed the economists' penchant for distinguishing between the economic and other aspects of social life. Instead, Comte envisaged "sociology" as the umbrella under which all the social sciences -- including economics -- would be subsumed, thus enabling their integration. This was a view that was, in fact, shared by several members of the German Historical School and the English-French Historical Schools as well as his translator, Harriet Martineau and, with some reservations, John Stuart Mill.

Major Works of Auguste Comte

Plan des travaux scientifiques nécessaires pour réorganiser la société, 1822.
Cours de philosphie positive, 1830-42, (in French; English version: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3; also extract, extract, extracts, extracts)
A General View of Positivism, 1848.
Système de philosophie positive, 1851-54. (extract)
Catéchisme positiviste, 1852.
Appeal to Conservatives, 1855
Synthèse subjective, 1856.

Answer 2

Father Of Sociology Auguste Comte