What is the difference between philosophy and science

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1. What is the difference between philosophy and science? In answering this question, be sure to include the difference between Epistemology and Methodology; and the various errors of social inquiry and possible solutions.

2. How did the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment contribute to the rise of Sociology as a discipline? Be sure to list, describe, compare and contrast the different Enlightenment philosophies, and as to how they contributed to Sociology as a science.

3. What are the three main Sociological Theoretical Perspective? Be sure to list, describe, compare and contrast the different theoretical perspectives and differentiate which perspectives are macro-theories and which are micro-theories in your answers. Also explain how sociological theories contribute and aid in conducting social research?

4. Answer the following questions:

What is a hypothesis and provide an example of one.
What is operationalization and an operational definition?
What is a measurement?
What is the difference between Inductive and Deductive reasoning?

Be sure to answer this question in essay form.

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