1. Literature Review

2. Purpose Foundation of ideas (classics and contemporary)
Important themes and models (strands and examples)
Touchstone:
Meaningful work
Comparison, setting the bar
How does my works compare with influential works?

3. Two questions How can we use literature effectively?
How does the literature get in our way and prevent us from doing our best work?
Lit review as setting and context
Making a table, standard pieces but leaving room for your own work

4. Becker’s research on deviance
Label became the most important than about the person
Power of a label/characteristic to override other characteristics
Drew on existing literature to frame his argument

5. Critical question
Why haven’t you looked at other theories to explore your argument?
Take a look at the other “conversations” to discover other approaches
May provide a fresh take for you

6. Ideological hegemony
“being trapped in the categories of your time and place”
Search for the dominant ideology and how it has shaped your thinking
Not an easy task
“routinely inspect competing ways of talking about the same subject matter”