A neuromythographic neologism that refers to the use of epistemology and methods introduced by Auguste Comte, including positivism and sociology. The Comtean view can further be traced back to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Rationalist school of Roman medicine, and the Greek Sophists. The descendants of the Comtean view include Hegel and Marx.
Emile Durkheim created modern sociology within a movement known as anti-positivism, which jettisoned the scientific pretense of positivism, and embraced the subjectivity of perspective as an epistemological foundation for sociology. Durkheimian sociology led to critical theory and postmodernism.