According to Auguste Comte, the type of thinking favored by people such as Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, becomes common in a society at which stage of societal development?

a. Theological stage
b. Metaphysical stage
c. Scientific stage
d. Post-scientific stage


Answer: c

Sociology

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