{"id":596,"date":"2008-09-13T18:24:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T22:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=596"},"modified":"2013-06-06T17:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T22:22:32","slug":"middle-range-theorizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/13\/middle-range-theorizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Middle range theorizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We can now revisit our model of practices and regimes by relating them to the ontological dimensions of social reality in a more systematic fashion.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>We must engage dimensions of social reality in a more systematic fashion<\/strong><\/span><\/span>.\u00a0 We must engage, therefore, in what might be termed a more <strong>middle-range style of theorizing<\/strong>, which involves the use of our ontological categories to <strong>redescribe ontical entities like practices and regimes<\/strong>.\u00a0 For instance, practices can be understood in terms of the way different dimensions of social relations \u2014comprising the social, political, ideological, and ethical dimensions \u2014 are foregrounded or backgrounded, how they are articulated, and so on.\u00a0 We claim that this provides us with significant analytical purchase to describe and explain the socio-political world in a non-topographical fashion (120).<\/p>\n<p>It is important to stress that in this to and fro movement between the <strong>ontological<\/strong> and <strong>ontical levels<\/strong>, which after all is constitutive of the logic of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>middle range theorizing<\/strong><\/span>, such typolgies are empirical and contingent. \u00a0&#8230; our account of regimes and our account of practices as a function of four ontological dimensions relies on a set of sociological and normative assumptions. \u00a0 (127).<\/p>\n<p>This suggests that we need to develop a language with which to characterize and critically explain the existence, maintenance, and transformation of concrete practices and regimes that is sensitive to our four ontological dimensions, and which makes explicit the normative aspects of our critical explanations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can now revisit our model of practices and regimes by relating them to the ontological dimensions of social reality in a more systematic fashion.\u00a0 We must engage dimensions of social reality in a more systematic fashion.\u00a0 We must engage, therefore, in what might be termed a more middle-range style of theorizing, which involves the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/13\/middle-range-theorizing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Middle range theorizing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontology","category-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}