French utopian socialism was a major influence on Comte; he responds to the same dissatisfactions with industrial society that Marx and Charles Dickens were responding to—the social and familial dislocation generated by industrial society creates problems that traditional political theories cannot address.

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he's responding to the same sort of dissatisfactions with industrial society that marx was responding to...the social and familial dislocation characteristic of the new industrial society generated certain problems that traditional political theories were not capable of formulating

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Comte and the Origins of SociologyMichael Sugrue
Created: 8/11/2026, 1:39:37 AM

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