Ways to Participate in Class

Ways to Participate in Class

1. OFFERING PERTINENT/RELEVANT INSIGHTS or INFORMATION on related topics.
- a) SHARING FINDINGS (e.g., from google searches)
- b) IDENTIFY (& mention) CONNECTIONS between your projects and interests and those of the lecture

2. FORMULATING a METAPHOR, METONYMY, SYNECHDOCHE, LITOTE, HYPERBOLE, or PERSONIFICATION

3. ASKING & ANSWERING QUESTIONS.

4. REFORMULATING/PARAPHRASING:  putting propositions & concept terms or definitions in your own words. ("So, what you're saying is that...")

5. SKETCH, DIAGRAM, GRAPH, ILLUSTRATE or describe the social with a VISUAL or MODEL (I.e., make a data visualization and present it to the class).

6. EXEMPLIFYING:  presenting an example of something  ("Would an example of that be...?", "So, for example..." "So, that's like when...")

7. THOUGHT EXPERIMENTING: imagining a scenario that is possible (and perhaps probable) in which things can be made incarnate in thought. IOW, fabricating a fictional possible world or situation. ("What if...?")

8. PROVIDING (statements of) EVIDENCE or COUNTER-EVIDENCE for a claim  ("That makes sense because X [is the case or happened].", "If that were true, then X would be the case, but Y is the case.") - e.g., offering data found through a google search

9. PRODUCING INDUCTIVE CONCLUSIONS (i.e., a pattern-expressing statement, a law-expressing statement, a statement of generalization) ("If this happens, then that will happen.", "X is typically followed by Y, which is usually followed by Z.") - e.g., "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
- Generalizing Words: usually, typically, probably, always, every, seldom, likely, nowhere, anywhere, anytime, anybody, few, all
- Logic Words: when, if...then..., until, for

10. HYPOTHESIZING: Generate a statement that expresses an expectation of what will happen or what has already happened. ("This mitigates the effects of that.", "This is the case.") - e.g., “Higher levels of education increase the likelihood of earning a higher income.”, "We have moved from a disciplinary society to a control society."

11. PRODUCING DEDUCTIVE CONCLUSIONS (inferring special/specific events)
E.g., X = cops are equipped with video cameras, Y = possibilities for repression will increase
1. If X, then Y.
2. X
Therefore,
3. Y

12. IDENTIFY breaches of uncertainty made in your own claims and in those of others. ("We don't know that yet (or given our point of view).", "That doesn't necessarily mean that.", "That conclusion doesn't follow from the facts.")