This restricted the scope for the survey to pursue new topics and theoretical lines of enquiry as was the case earlier on (see Hough et al. 2007).
Experimental, observational and theoretical lines of enquiry may all be appropriate; both qualitative and quantitative methods may also be used.
7 12 One promising theoretical line of enquiry is supported by Struelens' 8 recommendation to take a broad socio-ecological approach to the study and management of IP&C.
In addition to advancing highway maintenance cost behaviour understanding, the research illustrates that to gain new insights, researchers must be prepared to base causality enquiries on theoretical foundations advanced by other disciplines and to work with data and methods of analysis which are appropriate to each situation.
This domain of enquiry is consistent with the theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism, 22 which is based on the subjective meaning that individuals attribute to their own actions and to how they interpret and interact with the world around them.
It takes half an hour of earnest enquiry to get past the impenetrable theoretical system that underpins Coleman's composition, something he calls "harmolodics".
The methodological and epistemological differences we have seen, even within the narrow scope of 'integrative' approaches, are no more trenchant than the differences we might observe, for example, within the social sciences, and the differences seem to reflect legitimate theoretical disagreements over the purpose and nature of ethical enquiry.
Ontological Substantive Naturalism is the reductive view that there exists only natural and physical things and Semantic Substantive Naturalists emphasize that philosophical analysis of any theoretical concept must show it to be amenable to empirical enquiry.
In these situations it has been suggested that a staged process of enquiry should be instituted, and that qualitative and theoretical work may play an important part in developing research designs [ 1].
However, scoping studies often require 'sense-making' across fields of enquiry that are complex and which lend themselves to interpretation through many academic and theoretical disciplines.
