Part one of term paper
(holistic approach), during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were much concerned with the ‘nature’ of society and of the human social institutions. Their interests lay rather in what human society essentially is, than in the history of it’s development, either generally or in particular cases. Thus Comte, like his pr ...

Part two of term paper
... accordance with laws similar to the laws of nature, which, in principle at least, it should be possible to discover. So the understanding of society, like the understanding of the physical organism, was to be achieved by discovering the laws of social organization which operated to maintain the whole structure. This ‘organismic’ approach to the study of human societies had some limitations and can be dangerously misleading. The ‘organic’ approach reached ...