Explain how counter-enlightenment thought in addition to Enlightenment philosophy and science was also important to the development of sociology.
What will be an ideal response?
• Sociology embraced the rational empiricism espoused as part of The Enlightenment
• Sociology did not embrace the emphasis on the individual that was central to The Enlightenment
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