dc.contributor.author | John, Robert | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-19T18:23:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-19T18:23:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1980-04-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mid-American Review of Sociology, Volume 5, Number 1 (SPRING, 1980), pp. 15-36 http://dx.doi.org/10.17161/STR.1808.4860 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/4860 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Department of Sociology, University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | Copyright (c) Social Thought and Research. For rights questions please contact Editor, Department of Sociology, Social Thought and Research, Fraser Hall, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd, Lawrence, KS 66045. | |
dc.title | THEORY CONSTRUCTION IN SOCIOLOGY: THE COMPETING APPROACHES | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17161/STR.1808.4860 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |