were Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim, and although their theories were developed over 100 years ago, their concepts still remain relevant to the social issues of today. Auguste Comte Auguste Comte was a French philosopher who is credited for being the father of positivism and for creating the science of sociology. Comte originally coined this science as social physics, but he later changed the name to sociology (Moberg, 2013). In describing how society explains the world around them, Comte developed