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Read the following statement carefully.

… to speak of art and social theory as equal partners is to say that art represents a source of existential social knowledge that is of its own worth and is not inferior to the knowledge of social science. It is to say that there are certain things that art can tell us about society that social science cannot tell us … Novels, plays, films, paintings and drawings tell us different things about social life from the things a piece of social scientific research can tell us about social life, and to the extent that they tell us these different things, they tell us more things. (Harrington 2004: 3)

Consider a novel, play, film, painting or other work of art you have recently read, seen or heard. What does this work tell us about social life that is a) different from what sociology tells us and b) more than sociological knowledge? Can the knowledge provided by the work be compared to social scientific findings or are they just incommensurable?