Navigating an Interdisciplinary Horizon: Shaping the Future of Social Sciences.

A long fascination and publication history with both social theory and research methods eventually allowed me to develop a novel and unique platform of theoretical influences entangled social domains theory along with adaptive theory -which together form an appropriate and integrated package of research methods This involves four principle social domains which allow social researchers to effectively and simultaneously embrace multiple analytic angles perspectives and vantage points drawn from all areas of social science -on the same empirical data This package or platform is most useful for generating novel theory from research data about a vast range of areas of social life -industrial and professional management the adoption of disabled children 2018 chapters 6 and 7 through to popular culture body image and the use of gyms 2013 serial murder 2023a the exploration of mental health issues such as depression and anxiety and even the study of the relevance of creativity in social researc

Doing excellent small-scale research

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The realist image in social science

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Concept-Formation, Complexity and Social Domains: Investigating Emotion(s) in a Prison Setting

This article reports on an ethnographic study focusing on the impact of in-cell television on prison life in a male adult prison in the UK. Author Layder's social domains model (1997; 2006) and his adaptive analysis (1998; 2014), were used to give shape, meaning and organization to data from interviews with prisoners and staff and also television-use diaries. The research highlighted how television is adopted for its care-giving qualities (Knight 2015; 2016). This article focuses primarily on what prisoners do and what prison does, with emotions. The paper focuses on examining and developing theoretical and methodological conceptual links between self, emotions and control in the prison setting. Domain theory, adaptive approach, emotion, prison research, television, concept formation, coding, control, Layder

Understanding social theory /

Previous ed.: 1994.Includes bibliographical references and index