midrange theory

is a level of inquiry beyond the conceptual world of subjects to the articulation and disarticulation of sites.

Today, our inquiry goes beyond 'the conceptual world in which our subjects live,'35 but our approach may still be characterized as low-flying, an analytical angle that stays close to discursive and nondiscursive practices. Our goal is to engage in midrange theorizing about observable contemporary human phenomena in a variety of mutaring human situations.s. We seek to capture the shifting lines that disarticulate and rearticulate elements in constellations that constitute the site or object of investigation. It ' (Ong 2006:13).

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midrange theory