Posted: Jan 29, 2019 11:24 am
Hermit wrote:archibald wrote:That man, the one voice-acted at the start of the radio discussion I posted above, he was the inventor of sociology or something
Or something. Gustave Le Bon did write about sociology, beginning in the 1890s. Auguste Comte is regarded as the progenitor of the academic discipline of sociology. He died in 1857. On the strength of originality and innovation Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber are regarded as the founders of the academic discipline of sociology. Le Bon is not so much remembered for originality or innovation in the field than the opinions we now feel to be so outrageous. He was essentially doing not much more than verbosely publishing and promoting personal opinion. As such, he resembles more my personal bête noire, Otto Weininger, than being an actual sociologist. And yes, I have likened Peterson to almost a carbon copy of Weininger in the other thread.
Useful, thanks. Good catch.
Perhaps a tad potentially misleading then, to describe him the way he was described in that audio (as 'a founder of social psychology')?
And not, as I had wrongly remembered, the inventor of sociology.