mis-theorize

A form of mistheorize — To theorize incorrectly.

Meanings

verbmis-theorize (third-person singular simple present mis-theorizes, present participle mis-theorizing, simple past and past participle mis-theorized)

present singular third person mis-theorizes · participle present mis-theorizing · participle past mis-theorized · past mis-theorized

  1. alternativeAlternative form of mistheorize.

    Extant scholarship and theory tends to overlook and mis-theorize the role that marginal actors play in organizational change and development.

    2017, Seth A. Jacobson, Marginal Matters
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    However, due to the omission of the globalization-factor in transition theory, the causes for this change are under- or mis-theorized, and due to the scarce attention given area specialists, the nature of this change may be equally mis-represented.

    2005, Francis Kok-Wah Loh, Joakim Öjendal, Southeast Asian Responses to Globalization, page 362

    Where world-systems analysis focuses on the alleged unique nature of the modern capitalist world-system, world-system history contends that there is much fundamental continuity that allows us to see longer-term dynamics that have been ignored or mis-theorized.

    2012, Salvatore J. Babones, Christopher K. Chase-Dunn, Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis, page 164
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Chicago

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