(The fourth category is research that explores particular phenomena without having in view either general explanatory objectives or any applied use) [ 18].
Kandel's genetic reductionism is a metaphysical position aimed at identifying a privileged level in nature and a general explanatory strategy that unifies the phenomena and offers lawlike explanations.
The expected importance of contamination (internal and external) as an explanatory factor requires the development of accurate and appropriate approaches to measurement in order to refine the general explanatory power of this type of research.
Against this background, Fig. 1 shows the general explanatory model used in this article to explain differences in the NEET-rates between the Austrian subnational states.
Zhu Xi had a "particularistic" tendency to investigate each phenomenon on its own terms, without attempting to relate it to more general explanatory principles, as in his treatment of inertia and the relativity of motion.
Finally, the legal/non-legal demarcation in empirical social science usually reflects more general explanatory premises about the psycho-social factors that account for behavior, well beyond the realm of the legal.
In general, the explanatory variables had the expected signs.
This general explanatory template can be filled out in a number of ways.
Theory is generated interpretively by arranging the categories to propose a general explanatory account.
(See Bechtel and Richardson 1993 for more details on this general explanatory strategy).
