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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.
Social Research and Concept-Indicator Links
Social Research and Concept-Indicator Links
This chapter serves as a transition in terms of the themes treated in Chapters 3 and 5. In simple terms, Chapter 3 emphasizes the move from data to theory, while Chapter 5 takes the opposite tack and focuses on the theory to data connection. In this respect Chapter 4 takes an interim position in that it concentrates on ...
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