The criticism is actually so loosely defined, and universally applied, that one of my express purposes in writing this was to articulate as best I could the criticism itself. And because of the universality of its application, it’s brought up in most relevant literature as almost an obligation. Its lack of clear definition required my very own to be sort of “idiosyncratic”. I think Formal Theory in Sociology: Opportunity or Pitfall? is one of the best introductions to the subject; and it happens to be what I was implicitly, at the back of my mind, referring to as I wrote this. (It’s a fun read.)
The criticism is actually so loosely defined, and universally applied, that one of my express purposes in writing this was to articulate as best I could the criticism itself. And because of the universality of its application, it’s brought up in most relevant literature as almost an obligation. Its lack of clear definition required my very own to be sort of “idiosyncratic”. I think Formal Theory in Sociology: Opportunity or Pitfall? is one of the best introductions to the subject; and it happens to be what I was implicitly, at the back of my mind, referring to as I wrote this. (It’s a fun read.)