Preliminary Discussion
摘要
The purpose of this preliminary discussion is to provide readers with an overview of the book’s objectives and content in everyday language. In doing so, we are pursuing three goals: Firstly, we are providing access to social science theory relatable to everyday experience; secondly, we are outlining what will be discussed in the rest of the book; and thirdly, we touch upon the main features of theories that will be addressed in more detail later in the book and which will be referred to repeatedly throughout.