RICHARD SWEDBERG’S RESEARCH

Articles on Theorizing

• Richard Swedberg. 2022. “Theory as Text or Theory as Activities?” Sociologisk Forskning (Sweden) 59, 1-2:5-30.
• Richard Swedberg. 2021. “Theorizing with the help of the Classics,” Journal of Classical Sociology 21, 3-4:296-306.
• Richard Swedberg. 2022 forthcoming. “Robert K. Merton's Approach to Theorizing the Classics in Sociology” American Sociologist.
• Richard Swedberg. 2022 forthcoming. (with Hernan Mondani). “What is a Social Pattern? Rethinking a Central Social Science Term,” Theory and Society. 2022.
• Richard Swedberg. 2022 forthcoming. “Taking a Seminar with Merton.” In C. Crothers and L. Sabatta (eds.), The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton.
• Richard Swedberg. 2021. “What is a Method? On Different Meanings of the Term Method in Sociology,” Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory (forthcoming).
• Richard Swedberg (with Michela Betta). 2021. “On Thought Experiments in Sociology and the Power of Thinking”. Forthcoming in H. Leiulfsrud and P. Sohlberg (eds.), Constructing Social Research Objects. Leiden: Brill.
• Richard Swedberg. 2021. “How Do You Establish the Research Object in Sociology?” Forthcoming in H. Leiulfsrud and P. Sohlberg (eds.), Constructing Social Research Objects. Leiden: Brill.
• Richard Swedberg. 2020. “Exploratory Research.” Pp. 17-41 in Colin Elman et al (eds.), The Production of Knowledge. Cambridge University Press.
• Richard Swedberg. 2020. “On the Use of Abstractions in Sociology: The Classics and Beyond,” Journal of Classical Sociology 20, 4(2020):257-80.
• Richard Swedberg. 2020. “On the Uses of Metaphors in Sociology: Potentials and Pitfalls,” American Sociologist 51(2020):240-57.
• Richard Swedberg. 2020. “‘How Do I Know What I Think till I See What I Say?’ An Aphorism and Its Implications for Creative Theorizing,” Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory 21,1(2020):1-19.
• Richard Swedberg. 2019. “How Do You Make Sociology out of Data? Robert K. Merton's Course in Theorizing (Soc 213-214)”. The American Sociologist. Pp. 1-36.
• Richard Swedberg. 2019. “On the Use of Definitions in Sociology”. European Journal of Social Theory. Pp. 1-15.
• Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg. 2018. “Heuristics and Theorizing as Work on the Self”, Sociologica (Italy) 12, 1:21-5.
• Richard Swedberg. 2018. Does Speculation Belong in Social Science Research?, Sociological Methods & Research, 47,3:1–30.
• Richard Swedberg. 2018. “Colligation”, in H. Leiulfsrud and P. Sohlberg (eds.), Concepts in Action (Leiden: Brill).
• Richard Swedberg. 2018. “On the Near Disappearance of Concepts in Mainstream Sociology”, in H. Leiulfsrud and P. Sohlberg (eds.), Concepts in Action (Leiden: Brill).
• Michela Betta and Richard Swedberg. 2018. Values on Paper, in the Head, and in Action, Canadian Review of Sociology, 54,4:445–55.
• Richard Swedberg. 2017. How to Use Max Weber’s Ideal Type in Sociological Analysis, Journal of Classical Sociology, 2017, pp. 1–16
• Richard Swedberg. 2017. What Constitutes A Theoretical Contribution When An Empirical Study is Evaluated? Perspectives — A Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section Fall 2017
• Richard Swedberg. 2017. “Theorizing in Sociological Research: A New Perspective, a New Departure?”, Annual Review of Sociology. 43:189-206.
• Richard Swedberg. 2016. “Can You Visualize Theory? On the Use of Visual Thinking in Theory Pictures, Theorizing Diagrams, and Visual Sketches”, Sociological Theory. 2016, Vol. 34,3:250–275.
• Richard Swedberg. 2016. “Before Theory Comes Theorizing or How to Make Social Science More Interesting (Plus Response to Commentators)”, The British Journal of Sociology 2016 Volume 67 Issue 1, pp. 5–22, 57–70.
• Richard Swedberg. 2016. “On the Heuristic Role of Concepts in Theorizing”. Pp. 24-38 In Peter Sohlberg and Hakon Leiulfsrud (eds.), Theory in Action. Leiden: Brill.
• Richard Swedberg. 2015. “‘Orientation to Others’: A Central but Forgotten Concept in Max Weber’s Sociology”, from: Gianluca Manzo (ed.) Theories and Social Mechanisms. Oxford: Bardwell Press, 2015.
• Richard Swedberg. 2012. “On Charles S. Peirce’s Lecture ‘How to Theorize’ (1903)”, Sociologica (Italy) 21-27.
• Richard Swedberg. 2011. “Theorizing in Sociology and Social Science: Turning to the Context of Discovery”. Theory and Society, 41(2012):1–40.
• Richard Swedberg. 2010. “Theorizing: Two Brief Pieces”, Perspectives: Newsletter of the ASA Theory Section
• Richard Swedberg and Peter Hedstrom. 1998. Social Mechanisms, Cambridge University Press

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