social theory

is an organized abstraction of sense-making practices.

an organized abstraction of sense-making practices' (Beyond risk 10)

is more directly concerned than philosophy with the immediate experience of our lives and especially of our lives in the troubled times in which we live.

Unlike philosophy, social theory is more directly concerned with the immediate experience of our lives and especially of our lives in the troubled times in which we live.

is the systematic analysis of the broad developmental contours of modernity. It involves the reconstruction of terms such as human agency, intersubjectivity, social structure and society.

Social theory is the systematic analysis of the broad developmental contours of modernity, involving the multidisciplinary reconstruction of terms, issues and problems in the social sciences such as human agency, intersubjectivity, social structure and society. Unlike philosophy, social theory is more directly concerned with the immediate experience of our lives and especially of our lives in the troubled times in which we live. That is to say, social theory is more concerned with ontological than epistemological issues. Moreover, social theory is not the province of any one discipline in the social sciences, although it has certainly been institutionalized and professionalized in some disciplines such as sociology, political science and anthropology, for example.

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social theory