Реферат: The Comparative Method Essay Research Paper Sociologists

states that men tend to approach moral issues quite differently than women.

Where as men view morale issues with a "don’t interfere with my rights"

view, women focus more on the "responsibility" end of the morale involved.

Thus we can conclude, thanks to the comparative method, that the constructed

truth that all people view morale issues the same is not a correct one.

Another quick example of a cross-gender comparison would be that of the

house-wife. Still today most men view the role of the married woman as one

that involves being a house-wife, in the traditional sense of the term.

However, women today certainly would not view themselves in the same manner.

The data collected from a comparison such as this could help to dereify this

socially constructed truth.

Cross-class comparisons is also a comparison commonly used when attempting

to expose constructed truths between two classes. i.e. lower-class,

upper-class, middle-class. For an example I refer to my lecture notes. Our

professor gave us a fine example of a cross-class comparison involving his

own life. He was from a middle-class family and attended a public school

where he got involved with various kids from the middle and lower class. He

grew up in this type of environment and accepted it as the his life as the

way society was. To him, there was not another lifestyle. This was life.

Several events occurred and because of these events our professor was moved,

by his parents, to a private school. This private school and the ‘new’

society that accompanied it resulted in a form of culture shock for him.

All of a sudden he was placed in a new world, a world that he never even

knew existed. As you can see, our professor socially constructed the view

that society was like the one that he lived in when he went to his public

school, hung around with middle and lower-class friends, and did what middle

and lower-class kids did. When he was afforded the chance to compare that

type of lifestyle to one of the upper-class he dereified his constructed

view and his eyes opened to a new reality and a new view of the way society was.