'rooted in theory' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to something that is based on a theory or that has been established due to the application of a theory. For example, "This approach to management is rooted in theory and has been used successfully in many businesses."
Even the author admits this would be a hard sell.Whereas Mr Morozov's work is rooted in theory and Mr Lanier's in personal experience, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen base their new work, "The New Digital Age", on extensive research.
At Hacking Arts, it was exciting for us to engage with somebody who is using the same tools that we are, but who is deeply rooted in theory and who is thinking through a completely different lens.
It's an album rooted in theory — Mr. Modirzadeh, who holds degrees in ethnomusicology, often speaks of a "chromodal" musical ideology — but its end result will ring familiar to anyone with a passing interest in the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s and beyond.
The book argues that insights should be rooted in theories of electoral governance.
The approaches are strongly rooted in theories and methods from cognitive science and the emerging field of usability engineering.
In most cases these perspectives are rooted in theories of social science that were formulated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A conveyor belt of Think Tank pundits and allied operatives poured into the TV studios and together they built a fortress around Mrs Thatcher's memory that was rooted in theories about economics.
Aiming to illuminate multifinality following maltreatment, AMIS is rooted in theories on differential susceptibility and biological sensitivity to context [ 23], which claim that individuals differ systematically in their sensitivity to environmental inputs.
Like many such stimulus projects, it could be justified if you accept the idea that gross domestic product, not jobs, is central — a misconception rooted in economic theory, or at least in the way that Keynesian economic theory has evolved.
These techniques are rooted in the theory of reversible Markov chains.
The projects are direct, spatial and firmly rooted in architectural theory.
