SOCY 122 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Robinson Crusoe Island, Northop, Practical Action

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

Document Summary

Northop frye (1912-1991)-distinguished/respected literate: educated imagination-notes individuals engage world in 3 ways: Intellect observes and collects facts, identifies objects. Emotions how you assess and judge the situation. Language speculative/contemplative position of the mind. Uses robinson crusoe island metaphor: existence becomes human when you move from i don"t like, frye"s three levels of awareness: this to this is not the way i imagine it. 2nd action: practical action and social participation. 3rd imagination: level of the imagination. Science and the arts: convergence and divergence evidence: frye: science begins with surroundings, using observation and, imagination is crucial to science (copernicus and heliocentric, frye: science and arts converge, psychologically and otherwise; model) Science grows, evolves, progresses; arts are limitless. Arts are intangible; science is empirical, but we use arts to. Sociology committed to the analysis of an existing. Because arts and science converge to bring an empirical world understanding of it.