We outline the guiding ideas behind mechanisms-based theorizing in analytical sociology as a fruitful alternative to economics-inspired research on identification of causal effects, and discuss the potential of mechanisms-based theorizing for further development in organization and innovation studies. We discuss the realist stance on providing broader explanations as an identifying characterist...

The article sets out the value of theorizing collective action from a social science perspective that engages with the messy actuality of practice. It argues that community health psychology relies on an abstract version of Paulo Freire's earlier writing, the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which provides scholar-activists with a 'map' approach to collective action. The article revisits Freire's lat...

theories and theorizing in the field of international relation shave always been faced with the ups and downs of this area of study as it is faced with adversity of opinions . with the advent of critical approaches in the study of international relations and the need to understand the existing international order and provide a desirable international order, since the 1970s the importance of the...