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.
- ISBN10 1306733456
- ISBN13 9781306733458
- Publish Date 1 January 1998
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 14 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Sage Publications Ltd
- Format eBook
- Pages 201
- Language English