30-1842) is an attempt to perform this task. Comte's interest in the field of sociology led him to develop two areas of sociological thought: social statics and dynamics.
Statics takes the position that individual egoism, boosted by the separation of labor, could jeopardize cohesion in the social fabric. This dichotomous element in society could be managed if the family unit, which is the fundamental social institution, were strengthened. However, if this were to be accomplished, an understanding of the scientific laws regulating society would be necessary.
Social dynamics holds that such knowledge could be realized only when society enters the positivistic phase of human evolution. Thus, Comte's social dynamics involves the application to all human history of his concept of th
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