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explaining and justifying the use of theory via a sentence skeleton
I started this blog in early July 2011. To begin with I put up a load of small writing/researching ‘tools’ that I often used in teaching doctoral research methods and academic writing. After three years of blogging I thought I … Continue reading
Posted in sentence skeleton, theory
Tagged Pat Thomson, rhetoric, sentence skeleton, social theory
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thinking about theory
Has your supervisor told you that you must ‘do theory’ in your thesis ? Nothing like this kind of comment to bring about a real case of the jitters. Thesis Whisperer recently posted about just this situation and you might … Continue reading
Posted in contingency, Europe, local, theory, universalism
Tagged contingent theory, Eurocentrism, Pat Thomson, Raewyn Connell, social theory, Southern Theory, universalism
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