Grand theory
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Grand theory
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Grand theory is a term coined by the American sociologist C. Wright Mills in The Sociological Imagination to refer to the form of highly abstract theorizing in which the formal organization and arrangement of concepts takes priority over understanding the social reality. In his view, grand theory is more or less separate from concrete concerns of everyday life and its variety in time and space. Mills' main target was Talcott Parsons, also an American sociologist and the architect of structural f
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Term in sociology used initially to deride structural functionalism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_theory
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2011-10-26T20:07:25Z
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2024-09-14T05:42:49Z
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