Köpfe und Ideen 2019

“Most of our ideas are useless” – says the Swedish sociologist Richard Swedberg in discussing how to engage in successful theorizing. It is likely that many of his co-Fellows would frankly concur. Thinking is arduous work, even when it is propelled by an imminent interest, as is the case in the scientific world. But going largely undocumented is just how often such thinking only ends in a cul-de-sac. The good ideas, one hopes, make it through the filter of theory and methodology and are brought to paper and then perhaps take the form of a paper, often online and perhaps via open access.