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    The document outlines a 4-step process for analyzing sociological topics: 1) Description - defining and describing the topic, 2) Local analysis - examining the topic's context and effects, 3) Global analysis - studying the topic in other places and its planetary impacts, and 4) Historical analysis - tracing the topic's origins, changes over time, and future trajectory. This process provides a framework for systematically studying topics from multiple sociological perspectives.

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    The document outlines a 4-step process for analyzing sociological topics: 1) Description - defining and describing the topic, 2) Local analysis - examining the topic's context and effects, 3) Global analysis - studying the topic in other places and its planetary impacts, and 4) Historical analysis - tracing the topic's origins, changes over time, and future trajectory. This process provides a framework for systematically studying topics from multiple sociological perspectives.

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    Sociological Imagina/on

    STEP 1: DESCRIPTION
    What is it?
    How would you describe it in detail?
    What do you call it?
    How is it referred to?

    STEP 2: LOCAL ANALYSIS


    How is it used/bought/sold?
    In what context does it exist?
    Who benets from it?
    Who suers from it?
    Why does it appear the way it does?
    How does it aect your own personal life?

    STEP 3: GLOBAL ANALYSIS


    Does this object exist in other countries? If so,
    in what form?
    Is its used altered when used in another
    country?
    Does it aect life in the planet in any
    signicant way?

    STEP 4: HISTORICAL ANALYSIS


    When did the object come into existence?
    Why did it appear at this Sme?
    How has the object changed through Sme?
    What other aspects of social life have changed
    as a result of this object?
    How has your use of this object changed
    through Sme?
    What will be the future of this object?

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