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THEORY CONSTRUCTION IN SOCIOLOGY: THE COMPETING APPROACHES

John, Robert
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Over the last thirty years a number of sociologists have addressed the prospects of transforming sociology into a truly scientific discipline. This project has been translated into an ongoing debate between various proponents of opposing viewpoints in the literature on construction. In this paper I propose to analyze and compare the three major approaches toward theory construction, and the methods to which they adhere. In accomplishing this task I will concentrate on three main exemplars of these competing approaches: "grounded" theory advanced by Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Strauss; "propositional" theory by Hubert M. Blalock; and "exact" theory by David Willer.
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1980-04-01
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Department of Sociology, University of Kansas
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Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 05, Number 1 (SPRING, 1980)
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Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 5, Number 1 (SPRING, 1980), pp. 15-36 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.4860
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https://hdl.handle.net/1808/4860
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10.17161/STR.1808.4860
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