Part one What are the pitfalls of “common sense” observations and logic? Provide three examples. What is “positionality,” and what are its components? How do these components influence our...

Part one

• What are the pitfalls of “common sense” observations and logic? Provide three examples.


• What is “positionality,” and what are its components? How do these components influence our perceptions, understandings, and conclusions about the world—including the questions we ask and our common-sense observations and logic?


• Social research examines
  patterns of relationships
  (that is,
  patterns of interconnections). What three basic themes of patterned relationships/interconnections does social research examine? Provide an example for
  each of the three basic themes.