Auguste comte said that the political, technological, and social changes of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries had created a situation of

August Comte is considered the founder of social studies as well as the founder of Sociology. He was the author of the "Law of the Three Stages", or three forms in which human understanding of the world evolves, being the top of it the Positive understanding of the world, which in short words is that based on the knowledge of the scientific rules which command the world and particularly social behaviour.

The industrial revolution, the major changes in the late 18th and early 19th centuries might have evidenced this third stage of thinking on Comte's reading of society, because the situation of political, technological an social changes created a situation of ruling the world by sciences and reason, more than theological or methaphysical conceptions.