The sociological concern with theorizing, and how it could be complemented with a focus on media of theorizing

Our argument introduces sociological literature that, first, mobilizes different arguments on what constitutes a theory in the first place, and, second, provides different accounts on how theorizing can be conceived of as a social practice. The debate we introduce gained pace among sociologists in the last decade and reflected mainly on the discipline's own understanding and practice of theory. In mapping out this debate, we too neglect the discussion in other fields (for example, in biology, Pigliucci 2013; or higher education research, Hamann and Kosmützky 2021) but we think many aspects are relevant for most disciplines. We conclude with the suggestion that future research on theories and theorizing should attend to different media through which theories and theorizing are accomplished.