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Title Statement	What is theory? : answers from the social and cultural sciences
Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)	Liber ; Copenhagen Business School Press, Stockholm : Copenhagen : 2013 (Kina)
	2013
	Språk: Engelska.
Dewey Decimal Classification Number	300.1
SAB Classification Code	O:d
Edition Statement	1. ed.
Physical Description	333 s. ; 22 cm
Subject - Topical Term	Kunskapsteori Samhällsvetenskaplig forskning Humaniora Social sciences Knowledge, Theory of Humanities - Research
ISBN	978-91-47-09736-4 978-87-630-0250-9
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Chapter 1. Why ask what theory is? 9
HERVÉ CORVELLEC
1. Why theory? 11
2. A multidisciplinary and trans-generational approach 12
3. Why this book? 14
4. Eight pairs of chapters and an afterword 15
5. Theorizing as practice 21
Chapter 2. Beholding, explaining, and predicting - The history of the concept of theory 25
SVEN-ERIC LIEDMAN
1. Theory as beholding 27
2. Theory practice, and technique 29
3. The dream of the exact theory 35
4. The human sciences and theory 41
Chapter 3. History of ideas at the end of Western dominance 48
EDDA MANGA
1. The grand narrative 50
2. Poststructuralism as a threat 52
3. Poststructuralism and the postcolonial situation 54
4. De-centering perspectives 55
5. Provincializing the history of ideas 59
Concluding remarks 63
Chapter 4. Looking at theory in theory of science 65
MARGARETA HALLBERG
1. What is theory within philosophy of science? 67
2. What is theory outside of philosophy of science? 72
3. What is theory in theory of science? 74
4. Philosophy and theory of science and why they are not one and the same 75
5. The concept of science 79
6. The role of theory in social studies of science 80
Concluding remarks 85
Chapter 5. Theory has no Big Others in Science and Technology Studies (STS) 88
TEREZA STOCKELOVÁ
1. Theory (as explanation) and description 89
2. Theory (as thinking) and data 91
3. Theory (as disinterestedness) and practice 93
4. Decentering theory 95
Chapter 6. What social science theory is and what it is not 99
BARBARA CZARNIAWSKA
1. Some historical precedents 99
2. Lessons from the past: what theory is, and what it should and could be 106
3. Theory as plot 107
4. Theorizing: constructing the plot 117
Chapter 7. Theory as hope 119
TOMMY JENSEN
1. Antiessentialism and theory 119
2. Conversation and engagement 122
Chapter 8. Theory crisis and the necessity of theory - The dilemmas of sociology 130
ELENA ESPOSITO
1. The discovery of social reference 130
2. Relativity and reflexivity: when theory speaks of itself 133
3. Contingency without arbitrariness 136
4. What sociology could do 138
5. How sociology works 144
Chapter 9. Theory as disappointment - The dilemmas of history in particular, and on the end of history in general 147
SARA EDENHEIM
1. History and theory 150
2. The complacent rhetoric of reflexivity 152
3. Theories of contingency and ethics 157
Chapter 10. Theory - A personal matter 159
BILLY EHN AND ORVAR LÖFGREN
1. Life with or without theory 160
2. Dying theories 161
3. ...and emerging new ones 163
4. An "eclectic" tradition 165
5. Theory first, or 168
6. Passions for theory 171
7. Emotional challenges 176
8. Disciplines, generations, and micro-climates 178
Concluding remarks 179
Chapter 11. Theory - A professional matter 181
FREDRIK SCHOUG
1. Personal matters and employability 181
2. Do lawyers and engineers need theory? 184
3. The study of theory from a pedagogical point of view 188
Chapter 12. Economic theory - A critical realist perspective 193
LARS PÅLSSON SYLL
1. What should we demand of economic models? 196
2. Two paradigmatic examples 203
3. Why neoclassical economic theory is a dead-end 211
Concluding remarks 217
Chapter 13. For theoretical pluralism in economic theory 221
FREDRIK HANSEN
1. Nuancing Pålsson Syll's description of the state of theory in today's economics 222
2. What kind of realism? 225
3. Let's get pluralistic! 228
Chapter 14. What is theory in political science? 231
MORTEN OUGAARD
1. Political theory versus political research 232
2. Political theory 234
3. How sharp a distinction? 235
4. Theory and theories in political research 236
By way of conclusion: theory as a family concept 247
Chapter 15. For a new vocabulary of theory in political science 250
MARTIN HALL
1. Language 1: the Hollis and Smith tradition 251
2. Language 2: the Jackson reply 254
In lieu of a conclusion 256
Chapter 16. Theorizing the earth 258
RICHARD EK AND MEKONNEN TESFAHUNEY
1. Imperative to theory 261
2. Theoretical/methodological Eurocentrism 264
3. Positivism, the revolution that never was and human geography 267
4. The spatial turn 273
5. Down the ontic hole 276
6. Quo Vadis theory? 281
Chapter 17. The spatial turn within social and cultural studies - Spatial theory as an interdisciplinary praxis 283
LOUISE FABIAN
1. Heralding the spatial turn in humanities and social sciences 285
2. A genealogy of the spatial turn 286
3. Critical geography 290
4. The phenomenological theory of place 291
5. The analysis of spatial practice 293
6. When is a turn a turn? 295
7. The methods and meta-theoretical insights nurtured by the spatial turn 296
Chapter 18 (Postface). Walk the line 299
MATS ROSENGREN
Contributors (in alphabetical order) 303
References 309
Index 328

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