It is an influential synthesis of theories from anthropology, psychology, and sociology.
This synthesis of theories provides new conceptual frameworks to contribute to the design and conduct of theory-led evaluations of actions to tackle inequalities in health.
We conducted the first synthesis of theories on causal associations and pathways connecting degree of control in the living environment to socio-economic inequalities in health-related outcomes.
The framework is a synthesis of theories from building physics and social psychology including social cognitive theory, the theory of planned behavior, and the drivers-needs-actions-systems ontology for energy-related behaviors.
These identified mechanisms corroborate findings from other studies, as indicated in Thomson and Thomas (2015)'s recently published synthesis of theories of change associated with housing and relocation.
Some theories certainly achieve dominance (the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary theory, for example), and some theories become truly hegemonic, but they should never be considered beyond debate.
Furthermore, while the "target theory" turned out to be incorrect, the synthetic research program laid out a heuristic approach to future practice and set an extraordinarily high standard for the synthesis of experiment, theory, and mathematical hypothesis testing.
The traditional answer is that development was left out of the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary theory.
Margaret Wilson's (2002) synthesis of embodied theory identifies six tenets of embodied cognition and outlines the different research support for each, three of which emphasize offloading.
Explain that eventually careful studies demonstrated that both Mendel's and Darwin's discoveries worked together to explain gradual evolutionary change, including continuous quantitative variation, leading to an end to the saltationist concepts and culminating in the Modern Synthesis of evolutionary theory.
