Who is generally considered to be the father of sociology?

Auguste Comte (1798-1857), a French philosopher, is believed to be the father of sociology. A French philosopher who coined the idea of sociology in 1838 and sought to name a new science of social studies that used observations to study social behavior through a scientific study of society, known as positivism. Comte was deeply influenced by the social disorganization that followed the French Revolution and believed that a scientific study of the division of social statics and social dynamics could improve society. Though there are several social thinkers like Ibn Khaldun, Marx, and Durkheim who can be regarded as the founders or the principal architects of the discipline of sociology, Comte’s work on the development of the science of sociology and the establishment of its scientific character entail the title "father" of the same.