(holistic approach), during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were much concerned with the ‘nature’ of society and of the human social institutions. Their interests lay rather in what human society essentially is, than in the history of it’s development, either generally or in particular cases. Thus Comte, like his predecessor and teacher Saint Simon, was much concerned to stress that societies are systems, not just aggregates of individuals. Since the societies were look at as systems, they must be made up of interre ....