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Materialism Realism Voluntarism Idealism
e.g. assuming

that assets are

attached to classes -- becomes essentialism if it assumes, for instance, that women have certain inabilities and men have certain capabilities from which women are excluded.

assuming that structural positions influence people presently, whilst being subject to continual change assuming that people are fundamentally free to make choices, as if they were unconstrained by history and by their spatial location and body character/history assuming that making a mental model of a social relation is a good way of finding evidence about that thing