As this area of research is relatively new and immature, there is an emphasis on developing theories that can be used by future research efforts to solve particular problems in the field.
Here, we develop theory that specifically includes this decay.
Like these researchers, our methodological starting point was Turner's (1980) theory of social explanation, according to which understanding of social phenomena proceeds through comparison—examining how findings from individual studies are similar or different, and seeking to understand the reasons for differences to develop theory that goes beyond the immediate research contexts.
The longer answer is that researchers are developing theories that, should they withstand critical scrutiny, may tie at least some of the erratic weather to global warming.
This was the time of the Algerian war and of African independence movements, and in Paris, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon and Albert Memmi were developing theories that reverberated in our intellectual magazines.
In addition to developing theories that disclosed the social and psychological mechanisms at work in society that made the proletariat complicit in their own domination, Marcuse saw possibilities for revolution in multiple places.
Merton H. Miller, a professor of finance who won the 1990 Nobel in economic science for helping develop theories that were used to evaluate the risks of individual investments, died yesterday at his home in Chicago.
If we are truly educating our youth to be active citizens in a democracy who can think for themselves, teaching must encourage students to grapple with multiple perspectives, ask provocative questions and develop theories that can be supported with evidence.
At U.C.L.A., he developed theories that coalesced into a sociological subdiscipline known as ethnomethodology, which is concerned with the pool of shared knowledge and shared reasoning procedures that members of a society use to respond to the circumstances in which they find themselves.
The old joke about the man in front of a firing squad who refuses the customary last cigarette because he's trying to quit reminds us that deferring a reward does not always make sense, and economists and evolutionists have developed theories that predict the optimal delay of gratification in a given environment.
