What Middle-Range Theories Are

Boudon, Raymond; Clark, Jon; Modgil, Celia; Modgil, Sohan; Cohen, I. Bernard; Duffin, K. E.; Strickland, Stuart; Feldhay, Rivka; Elkana, Yehuda; Merton, Robert Κ.; Fiske, Marjorie; Kendall, Patricia L.; Mongardini, Carlo; Tabboni, Simonetta

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“…In spite of the wide acceptance of Merton's idea within many disciplines, the precise meaning of 'middle-range theories' remains problematic (Boudon, 1991). Whether a theory is at an appropriate level is a matter of judgment.…”

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Theory Building in the Information Systems Discipline: Some critical reflections

Weber¹

2012

Information Systems Foundations: Theory Building in Information Systems

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This chapter articulates criteria for evaluating the quality of a theory. It also shows how the criteria can be used to pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of a theory that, based upon citation evidence, appears to have had a significant impact on other researchers within the information systems discipline. Aside from their evaluation purposes, the criteria are also intended to inform researchers who are seeking to build high-quality theory to account for some type of phenomena within the information systems domain.Nothing is as practical as a good theory. (Lewin, 1945, p. 129)

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Theory Building in the Information Systems Discipline: Some critical reflections

Weber¹

2012

Information Systems Foundations: Theory Building in Information Systems

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“…Es decir, que la teoría de la mediatización es una teoría a nivel macro en el sentido de que provee un marco general para el entendimiento "de los procesos de interrelación a largo plazo entre el cambio en los medios por un lado y los cambios sociales y culturales por el otro" (Hepp et al, 2010, p. 223), pero el análisis y el trabajo conceptual asociado ocurre en un nivel especí co de dominio, teniendo en cuenta las circunstancias históricas y socioculturales especí cas. Por lo tanto, las teorizaciones concernientes a la política mediatizada o a la religión mediatizada pueden ser, en consecuencia, consideradas como teorías de mediano alcance (Merton, 1957;Boudon, 1991).…”

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Mediatización: reencuadrando el análisis de los efectos de los medios

Hjarvard

2016

Inmediac. Comun.

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Mediatization research shares media e ects studies' ambition of answering the di cult questions with regard to whether and how media matter and in uence contemporary culture and society. e two approaches nevertheless di er fundamentally in that mediatization research seeks answers to these general questions by distinguishing between two concepts: mediation and mediatization. e media e ects tradition generally considers the e ects of the media to be a result of individuals being exposed to media content (i.e., e ects are seen as an outcome of mediated communication). Mediatization research is concerned with long-term structural changes involving media, culture, and society (i.e., the in uences of the media are understood in relation to how media are implicated in social and cultural changes and how these processes come to create new conditions for human communication and interaction). From the perspective of mediatization research, the most important e ect of the media stems from their embeddedness in culture and society.

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“…In addition to the middle-range theories (Boudon, 1991) discussed above, which describe the formation and development of political movements at an operational level and can be used to describe specific empirical case studies, additional concepts such as social networks and spatial or idea diffusion are critical in shaping how movements develop. For instance, Cox, Rosenbluth, andThies, (1998) andMcClurg (2003) have described how social networks affect individuals' behaviors and political participation.…”

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Mobilizing for Change

Altaweel

Sallach

Macal

2012

Social Science Computer Review

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Theories on the establishment and propagation of political movements through mobilization have emerged and evolved over the last half century. Among the major theoretical frameworks that have been advanced are resource mobilization theory, political process theory, and culture theory. However, despite these developments, relatively few methodological approaches have applied bottom-up computational modeling and simulation in explaining movement development in conflicts. With developments made in computational methods, the integration of social theory with modeling and simulation is a natural progression in creating tools that allow analysts, policy makers, and researchers the means to assess the successes or failures of political movements during armed struggles. This article presents an agent-based model and simulation that applies several frequently used theoretical approaches to political mobilization and explores the extent to which group resources and identity shaped conflicts in Central Asia. Given their historical, cultural, political, economic, and geographical circumstances, the authors seek to determine why different movements experienced contrasting political mobilization outcomes. Results show that receiving outside resources could help a relatively weak group, with limited mobilization, overcome opposition that is initially better mobilized, while shared identity and sufficient risk taking are shown to be potentially strong factors in producing successful mobilization. More broadly, the approach advanced enables analysts and researchers to better anticipate future mobilization events and projected paths of conflict by developing and understanding cause and effect relationships within relevant theoretical frameworks.

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What Middle-Range Theories Are

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Theory Building in the Information Systems Discipline: Some critical reflections

Theory Building in the Information Systems Discipline: Some critical reflections

Mediatización: reencuadrando el análisis de los efectos de los medios

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