Divide the class into small groups. Each group is to

a. pick a social phenomenon or experience of interest (e.g., sex work, homelessness);

b. provide a nomothetic explanation for it; and

c. provide an idiographic explanation for it.

The groups are to go into as much detail as possible. When that is completed, each group is paired with another group (A and B, C and D, E and F, etc.)

such that Group A presents its results to the rest of the class, while Group B has the task of providing a critical evaluation (enumerating both strengths and weaknesses) of Group A’s arguments. Then the reverse: Group B presents and Group A critiques.

Repeat for Groups C and D, E and F, and so on.