- 著者
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Rodney Stark
- 出版者
- Japanese Association For Mathematical Sociology
- 雑誌
- 理論と方法 (ISSN:09131442)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.16, no.1, pp.19-29, 2001-03-31 (Released:2016-09-30)
- 参考文献数
- 20
When research is theory-driven, the “proper” research method is the one that best tests one's theory. An often unnoticed byproduct of theory-driven research is the ability to “discover” appropriate data. I illustrate this point with the many instances when I recognized that the data I needed to test a theory were already available in some rather odd places.