Auguste Comte Contribution To Sociology. He is known as “the father of ‘sociology” as he was the first one to realize the importance of relating sociology with science. 19, 1798, montpellier, france—died sept.

In 1838 auguste comte, a frenchman, coined the term sociology, from the latin socius (companion or associate) and the greek term logia (study of speech). Comte first gave the name “social physics” to the science invented by him but later he coined the word “sociology a hybrid term compounded of latin and greek words to.