O teorii i współczesnym teoretyzowaniu w naukach społecznych
On Theory and Contemporary Theorising in Social Sciences

Summary/Abstract: Theory and theorising are essential issues for science. Every science. And especially for the social sciences. For this reason, the author of the article indicates some of the influential tendencies in these sciences that eliminate theory from thinking about the discipline and also from thinking about empirical research. Even though essential and groundbreaking theoretical works appear in world literature, mainstream publications reduce theory to quotes, lists, and sometimes only chapter mottos. The author ponders the conditions for this state of affairs. He concludes that reviewers are partly responsible for this state of affairs and are not always interested in original and - above all - independent analyses; they are not interested in working with the text. For this reason, authors engage in “compilation” activity, which can hardly be called scientific in the traditional sense. In the final word of this essay, the author enumerates the weaknesses of this state of affairs and possible long-term consequences for developing social science theory.

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