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In this textbook, Derek Layder offers a better understanding of the links between theory and research, and provides an analysis of the relationship between the two. He develops clear usable strategies to encourage theory development in the practical context of social research, and introduces a new approach - adaptive theory - which can be used to generate new theory as well as develop existing theory in conjunction with empirical research. Layder concludes by providing an outline of new rules of sociological method that show how adaptive theory can be put into practice.
Analysing Data With Theory in Mind
Analysing Data With Theory in Mind
This chapter examines some of the practical problems of theory development from the point of view of ongoing data analysis during research. (Chapter 5 reverses this emphasis and concentrates on applying theoretical materials to the process of social research as a means of elaborating and developing new theory.) I must ...
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