Table 1 How to turn the question on its head
Sometimes sociologists have gained greater insights into a sociological problem by looking at it differently from the way it has always been studied before. For example, the Interactionists asked why some people get labelled as deviant rather than asking why people commit crime, and the Right realists have asked why people do not commit crime rather than why they do.
Using these two ideas we can try to find a solution to a common problem faced by students when answering exam questions, which is knowing what to bring in and what to leave out because the question has so many elements. So turn the question on its head:
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