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Why Do We Theorize?

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Living on the Brink … 21

Social Theory in an Anxious Age … 23

An Age of Indeterminacy … 24

Looking Back at Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory … 27

Looking Around at Twenty-First-Century Social Theory … 30

Keeping Theory Simple … 31

What Are Good Social Theories? … 37

Why Study Social Theory? … 39

Facts and Theories … 40

Social Observation … 41

Decoding Social Theories … 42

How to Talk About Sociological Theory … 43

Social Theory and Social Literacy … 45

References … 46

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Tony Simmons

Tony Simmons teaches sociology at Athabasca University. He is the author of Revitalizing the Classics: What Past Social Theorists Can Teach Us Today and co-author of Reading Organizational Theory: A Critical Approach to the Study of Organizational Behaviour and Structure.