INDUCTIVE THEORY CONSTRUCTION
    An Example of Inductive Theory: Why Do People Smoke Marijuana?
 

    This section will bring you closer to the process of inductive logic.  The question addressed in the chief example of this section has to do with the reasons why some college students smoke marijuana and others do not.  You'll be presented with a set of observations in the form of a student survey: relating marijuana use to gender, living arrangements, home town, and ethnicity.  Your job will be to discover the general pattern that brings these several variables together logically.

     There is sometimes a tendency to regard theory as relevant to pure research but less important in the practical world of applied research.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  As we'll see in this section,