Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Theorizing and writing social theory -- Social theory -- Theorizing -- Writing -- Writing in the research process -- Writing in the reporting process -- Outline of the book -- References -- Part I Tools for theorizing in social science -- Graphic representations -- Displays and property spaces as preliminary endpoints -- References -- 2 Basics of displays -- What is a display? -- Building blocks of displays -- Putting a display together -- Summary -- References -- 3 The use of displays in theorizing -- Theorizing by extending -- Theorizing by mapping interaction -- Stepwise theorizing -- Summary -- References -- 4 Basics of property spaces -- Constructing a property space -- Hidden property spaces -- Housekeeping -- Labelling the types: terms -- Developing existing terminology -- Summary -- References -- 5 Reduction of property spaces in theorizing -- Rescaling -- Indexing -- Logic reduction -- Empirical reduction -- Theoretical reduction -- Pragmatic reduction -- Summary -- References -- 6 Expansion of property spaces in theorizing -- Substruction -- More properties of existing dimensions -- More dimensions -- Combining property spaces -- Inserting process arrows -- Creating scales -- Summary -- References -- Part II Tools for writing social science -- References -- 7 The Model of Argumentation: chain of reasoning, chains of argument and arguments -- The rhetorical situation -- Purpose -- Persona -- Audience -- Tone -- The subject matter -- The model -- Summary -- References -- 8 Examples of using the Model of Argumentation -- The process of writing a social science text: an example -- The (preliminarily) finished structure of a text: an example