Unlike Earlier Religious Traditions, Which Attempted to Determine the Ultimate

Unlike earlier religious traditions, which attempted to determine the ultimate cause or source of reality, Auguste Comte developed positivism in order to:

A) explain how class conflict drove social change.
B) argue that symbolic interactions between individuals were the basis for social life.
C) justify a particular kind of social system based on hierarchy and privilege.
D) develop verstehen, or understanding, of individual behavior.
E) identify laws that describe the behavior of a particular reality.