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Thinking Sociologically
When Thinking Sociologically You Should Think In Terms Of:
- Individual action, subjectivity, meanings
- Relationships, connections, interactions
- Structures, systems, forces, dynamics
Considerations:
- Consider ability
- Consider class
- Consider age
- Consider gender
- Consider ethnicity
- Consider nationality
- Consider sexuality
- Consider culture/subculture
- Consider context
- Consider the issue of space
Questions:
- Why?
- Who speaks?
- Who do they speak for?
- Who benefits?
- Who loses?
- Who rules?
- Who decides?
- What evidence is presented?
- What are the alternative interpretations of it?
- What evidence might not be presented?
- What is the opposite point of view?
- What is the difference that makes the difference?
- What are the connections?
- What institutions are involved?
- What is being assumed?
- Compare and contrast: how does X do it?
- Have they always done it this way?
- Does this happen formally or informally?
- What causes changes?
- Cause or consequence?
- Failure or product?
- How does individual relate to society?
- How does private relate to public?
- How is this society structured?
- How are resources (material and immaterial) allocated?
- Does X transform society or secure it?
- What are the implications for the future?