SOME SOCIAL SCIENCE PARADIGMS

Macrotheory and Microtheory     Early Positivism     Social Darwinism     Conflict Paradigm     Symbolic Interactionism

Ethnomethodology     Structural Functionalism     Feminist Paradigms     Rational Objectivity Reconsidered

TWO LOGICAL SYSTEMS REVISITED      The Traditional Model of Science      Deduction and Induction Compared

Enhancement Module: Discovering Truth

DEDUCTIVE THEORY CONSTRUCTION
    Getting Started
    Constructing Your Theory
    An Example of Deductive Theory: Distributive Justice

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

THE LINKS BETWEEN THEORY AND RESEARCH

THE IMPORTANCE OF THEORY IN THE "REAL WORLD"