This approach reflects a broader shift toward qualitative research paradigms within the social sciences, which call upon empirical data to "ground" or otherwise act upon certain
theoretical accounts. For this reason alone, Brandt's book is worthwhile reading for scholars interested in the role that audiences play in the construction of cinematic meaning.
The grounded theory report is a
theoretical account of the process rather than a descriptive account (Wuest, 2012).
Moreover, Siggie suggested, anyone who tried to offer a literary or
theoretical account of Auschwitz was little better than an interloper.
That Marx's account of production did not take sufficient
theoretical account of this potential of inciting minds to want newly-invented needs can be forgiven, given that his work predates the technological advances capable of most successfully exploiting this potential, specifically those technologies of sound and image able to operate simultaneously on thousands if not millions of minds.
Russell Hardin intends to give an economic
theoretical account of such highly relevant, under-researched 'ordinary knowledge'.
That is, the concept of autonomy lacks a
theoretical account broad enough to encapsulate all of the varieties of its use.
With great subtlety and rigor, the purely
theoretical account of Part 3 shows how rights are correlated with duties, but how the converse does not necessarily hold (Chapter 11).
I wish Blythe had offered a
theoretical account explaining how to 'try to understand how Tolomeo actually thought'.
The speculative connections that she urges often fail to persuade since they do not draw extensively on a diverse array of non-literary forms of evidence even as they do not offer a convincing
theoretical account of the dynamics of the theatre and its audience's engagement with sixteenth-century English aristocratic culture.
Three objectives are identified in the introduction of the book: "[providing] a comparative analysis of the emergence and development of Greek and Turkish nationalist projects," "[offering] a critical approach to the established views about the inevitability of the rise" of each nation and "[proposing] a
theoretical account of the processes of nation formation" (5).
This understanding eventually boiled down to the need to pay
theoretical account to the process of generating meaning in the actual encounter between the theatrical performance and a spectator.
Interesting and enjoyable to read though these various examples are, they are also in the end not central to the argument, which is not a performance history of the play, but an attempt to advance a
theoretical account of what the stakes of any performance must be to address the kind of play it is designed to be.
In this essay, I shall offer a
theoretical account of this concept of a submerged plot and how it relates to other work in narrative theory on plot and progression, relate the submerged plot of the mother's pleasure to previous work on the unnarratable, and build on these
theoretical accounts to trace the submerged plot's substantial effects on the surface plot of Persuasion.
It begins with ethnographic case studies of 'bodies' across two settler colonies, and ends with an historical and
theoretical account of discourses of individual freedom and social constraint, which evidence the liberal governance of intimacy and love in such colonies.