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This article offers a way to understand what social theorists do when they build theories. The core idea is that social theorising involves three kinds of activities: working with binary distinctions (pairs like individual/society or normal/abnormal), engaging with concepts (key ideas that help describe and explain social life), and creating or challenging typologies (grouping cases into types).
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This page is a summary of: The source code of social theorising: engaging with binary distinctions, concepts and typologies, Information Technology and People, April 2026, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/itp-12-2025-1932.
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