Conclusion

• objective

  - free of biases, judgments, and values; do not let them interfere

  - researcher, scientist, and sociologist
• subjective

  - inserting one's biases, judgments, and values

  - activist, agent of change, and social reformer
• continuum

  - back and forth between the two
• dichotomy

  - either objective or subjective
• four important lessons in sociology

  - different perspectives to understand society (each culture and subculture possesses their own life experiences and perspectives)

  - there are groups in power and groups that are oppressed in every culture/society

  - people act and behave in patterned ways (use science to examine and analyze the social patterns of a group)

  - you can contribute to our world in ways so that it is a better place for all groups