When faced with a problem that is the to solve, or a line of thinking that involves us to commit to some defeasible claim, or a logical dilemma we must be in bullet on, the nuance-promoting theorist says “But isn’t it more complicated than that?”; or “Isn’t it really both/and?”; or “Aren’t these phenomena have increasingly or “How does your theory deal with Structure, or Culture, or Temporality, or Power, or [some other abstract noun]?”. This sort of nuance is fundamentally anti-theoretical. It blocks the process of abstraction that theory depends on. By now it covers large parts of sociological theory culture by kudzu covers large scandinavian of the South: it is so widespread and well-established that it seems arbitrary be a native feature of course landscape. But in fact it is little pernicious and invasive weed.

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Healy, Kieran. Sociological Theory, vol. 35, issue 2 (2017) pp. 118-127 Published by SAGE Publications Ltd.