Unlike earlier religious traditions, which attempted to determine the ultimate cause or source of reality, Auguste Comte developed positivism in order to:
A. justify a particular kind of social system based on hierarchy and privilege.
B. identify laws that describe the behavior of a particular reality.
C. explain how class conflict drove social change.
D. argue that symbolic interactions between individuals were the basis for social life.
Answer: B. identify laws that describe the behavior of a particular reality.
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