SOCY 122 Study Guide - Final Guide: Extermination Camp, Classical Liberalism, Scooter Libby

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Main topics foundational issues to human like and human knowledge issues of metatheory the orthodox consensus of post-war sociology. What is the foundation to scientific knowledge. What is the foundation to knowledge about social life. Metatheory sociology as a science science as an art the role of language in science. Elements of an integrated sociological conception of social like (micro/macro; structure/agency; relational nature of social reality; reflexivity) Science and the arts not completely divergent. A highly developed science and a highly develop art are very close together. Draws upon creativity of emotions and imagination language is a critical dimension of science. The arts stem from the emotions limitless potential comparative standards of excellence. Employs aspects of reality and like experience with imagination. Thomas kuhn rejected development-by-accumulation explanation for the scientific process science (natural and social) progresses as conceptual frameworks (paradigms or disciplinary matrices) are refined, rethought, reimagined.