ABSTRACT
This book provides you with the tools to help you, first, creatively play about with
concepts to satisfy your own theoretical curiosity, then to creatively play around
with arguments to arouse and satisfy other people’s theoretical curiosity. It is a
toolbox for theorizing and writing social science, whether it is in connection with
your very first essay to your teacher or fellow students, your master or PhD thesis
or an article to a prestigious journal in your later professional career as a social
scientist. Naturally, the tools are used somewhat differently and with varying skill at
the different levels, but they all come from the same toolbox.With the phrase ‘social
theory’ we simply mean theories produced within the social sciences.
