SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Metatheory, Thomas Kuhn, Episteme

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

Document Summary

Science: stems from the intellect, emphasis on observation and classification, grasps regularities, progresses in accuracy and utility, draws upon creativity of emotions and imagination, language s critical dimension of science. Science and the arts do diverge; but they also converge considerably: like science, sociology is committed to the analysis and comprehension of a relatively enduring reality, like science and the arts, language and creativity are critical to sociology"s comprehension of complex social world, the domain pf sociology is the level of action: where intellect and emotions combine (the humanization of the world) Michel foucault: humankind creates order to its world (the intellect begins with some principles of order to observe and classify, an episteme is : a fundamental code of a culture , al areas of knowledge (the arts and sciences) produce/perceive order on the basis of the same epitseme.