SOC 201 Chapter 3: Chapter 3.6
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Sociologists can become very attached sometimes too attached to one of these theoretical perspectives. Becoming too attached means forgetting that there is value in each of the three paradigms. Truth be told, understanding any complex phenomenon may require the sociologist to make use of the insights offered by all three paradigms. It is probably impossible, for example, to have a society in which there is no consensus or no dissent. Furthermore, in all societies, people have to work to communicate and negotiate the meaning of things.
