[lbo-talk] URPE Summer Conference -- Aug 15-18 -- REGISTERNOW!ORGANIZE A PANEL!

[Miles Jackson]

B. wrote:
> http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120088937/abstract
> 
> Everyone's favorite quarterly journal, Sociological
> Theory, tackled in its latest issue the problem
> Carroll raises below. Sociologist Gabriel Abend at
> Northwestern University asserts that "theory"(as
> commonly referred to among scholars in the social
> sciences) may actually mean any one of seven things.
> Oft-times, when people discuss "theory," they are
> talking past one another; one side uses one of the
> seven definitions Abend details, while the other side
> uses another.
> 
> I only have this article in hard copy or I'd produce
> the seven definitions Abend has discovered researchers
> employ when speaking of the term. 
> 
> -B.

Could you paraphrase?  I'm curious.

Miles