`This book will be an indispensable and accessible guide for students and researchers in social theory. It provides analytical and practical tools for both theorizing and writing in a very pedagogical way. The book inspires to creative analyses and provides guidelines on how to bring order and systematics into an often complex research process. In short, this book is a ... Read morevital contribution in constructing and presenting social theory.' - Professor Kristina Hakansson, Gothenburg University, Sweden `This remarkable book explores the development and use of social theory in ways that have seldom been attempted before. Far from being an endeavour that only the minority can and should engage with, everyone, from students to professors can and should theorise. Indeed with the help of the (relatively simple) expedients and tools recommended in this book it should be easy to develop social theory and to use it in the presentation of research findings. Strongly recommended to students - and indeed to fellow professionals - this book embodies the message that making, developing and using concepts is and should be central to the practice of social science.' - Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University, U.K Show Less