Thread by @LarsJohannessen

THEORIZING PART #2

Given the interest in my previous thread, I decided to follow up with 12 additional resources on theorizing.

I've also included selected community suggestions from the previous thread.

Buckle up! 🧵⬇️

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BOOKS

Swedberg - Theorizing in Social Science

An anthology and follow-up to 'Art of Social Theory'. Includes chapters by key thinkers such as Karen Knorr-Cetina, Diane Vaughan, Stephen Turner, Karl Weick and James March.

degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Reed - Interpretation and Social Knowledge

A highly ambitious work in which Reed demonstrates how to construct 'maximal interpretations' - that is, historically specific and hermeneutically rich explanations of social phenomena

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Alvesson and Sandberg - Constructing Research Questions

A book-length version of their popular paper on 'problematization' (cited in the previous thread)

methods.sagepub.com/book/construct…

Charmaz - Constructing Grounded Theory

GT undoubtedly deserves mention in a thread on theorizing, and Charmaz' book represents one of the more methodologically mature approaches to theorizing in GT.

uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/cons…

ARTICLES

Swedberg – Can You Visualize Theory?

Discusses how visual thinking can be used as a tool for theorizing in sociology (see also the works of Estefan and Seim + Silver further down this thread)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

@michel_estefan and @JoshSeim - Teaching Social Theory as Cartography

Presents the idea of ‘theory maps’ as a tool for teaching (and learning) about theory

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Dellwing - The Flaneur Appproach

Discusses Goffman's approach to theorizing, which allowed him to create theories that "reorder the world in a way that makes the read ... 'shudder' with recognition" (p. 138)

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sy…

@kimberlykhoang - Theorizing from the margins

A more critical piece that addresses the questions of who gets to be a theorist and what kinds of theoretical work get marginalized

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

Eliasoph and Lichterman - "We Begin with Our Favorite Theory …"

Critically appraises Burawoy's Extended Case Method (by way of Burawoy's own methodological principles)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/07…

Johannessen - Beyond the Academy

Shameless plug for Scandinavian readers: my own paper on why 'Abductive Analysis' should be applied not just to scientific theory but also to a range of non-scientific theories that are deserving of abductive refinement

idunn.no/doi/10.18261/n…

SPECIAL ISSUE

The journal 'Ethnography' has an issue devoted to discussions of Isaac Reed's "Interpretation and Social Knowledge"

journals.sagepub.com/toc/etha/18/1

SUGGESTED COLLECTIONS

. @markcarrigan added a link to the @TheorySchool, a page which includes tons of interesting work:

twitter.com/TheorySchool?s…

. @raulpacheco shared this thread which includes a lot of relevant contributions:

https://twitter.com/raulpacheco/status/1480586643853791234?s=20&t=7uUfOv8Jh5OF6c2TvoHfqQ

BOOK SUGGESTIONS

Martin - Thinking Through Theory

"explores the role of theory in sociology with a focus on good thinking" (suggested by @kchihaya)

wwnorton.com/books/97803939…

Stinchcombe - Constructing Social Theories

"presents a range of strategies for constructing theories, and in a clear, rigorous, and imaginative manner, illustrates how they can be applied" (suggested by @syntheticvox)

google.com/books/edition/…

Jackson & Massei - Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research

"demonstrates how to enact various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry" (suggested by @DrHelenKara)

routledge.com/Thinking-with-…

ARTICLE SUGGESTIONS

Lizardo - The Relevance, Opportunities, and Pitfalls of Theorizing in Sociology Today

A talk in which @omar_lizardo discusses the current state of theory and the theory field (suggested by @galindo45)

akgerber.com/lizardo.html

Carleheden – How to theorize?

“deals with different meanings of social theory, which form the basis of different answers to the question of the role of social theory” (suggested by @heldigt)

researchgate.net/publication/33…

Lutz - The Gender of Theory

Argues that "writing claimed as theory is highly gendered and in this mirrors a range of processes in scholarship identified by feminist analysts" (suggested by @jana_bacevic)

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Silver: Figure It Out!

“pushes forward a critical dialogue about the value of visualization as a method of sociological theorizing” (suggested by @brett_gordon)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Swedberg - Theorizing with the help of the classics

Discusses challenges – and ways forward – for using the ‘classics’ for theorizing purposes (suggested by @OlgaSaRa2003)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Ginnerskov – Appraising Classicality

Examines “sociology’s understanding of how classicality becomes established”, focusing on the neglected work of “Sweden's main candidate for a classic”, Gustaf F. Steffen (suggested by @rotosherranen)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Alvesson and Sandberg – Problematization Meets Mystery Creation

Further discusses their ‘problematization’ methodology (suggested by @DeNiermann)

researchgate.net/publication/28…

There you go! As some have rightfully pointed out, there's a clear anglophile bias to my selection. I'd love to learn about contributions from other parts of the world too, especially if they deal with the topic differently.

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