SOCY 122 Final: Sociology 122 Winter Term Exam Final-notes.doc

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

Document Summary

Frye"s three levels of engagement: contemplative, fairly direct, observe, contemplate, speculate, action, interact with world around them. Imagination: speculate about different types of possibilities. 1: emotions (basis to arts, use both to engage with the world, the mind is involved at each level. A highly developed science and a highly developed art are very close together, psychologically and otherwise (frye, cited p. 9) (cid:0) science and art are not completely divergent. Key points: though it may seem like more of an art, sociology is a science, sharing fundamental characteristics with biology, chemistry, psychology etc, all sciences draw upon the intellect but also the emotion, and humankinds creative capacity. 1: beginning of the scientific world view. Therefore, emphasis is on observation and classification: grasps regularities. Sociology focuses on the level of action where intellect and emotions combine (the humanization of the world)