The Theories Of Inductive, Deductive And Less Used Reproductive And Abductive

There are four different research strategies are inductive, deductive and less used reproductive and abductive. ‘The aim of the inductive approach is ‘to establish universal generalizations to be used as pattern explanations’ whereas the deductive would ‘test theories, to eliminate false ones’. The latter would construct and ‘deduce the hypotheses’ rather than ‘produce generalization’ (Blaikie, 2007)- appendix for Table. The argument was that the theory which Atkinson developed as the “core-periphery model”. The model highlighted that firms will likely retain the ‘core’ workers, whilst the periphery encompasses the low skilled, inexperienced employees whose number runs parallel with the business fluctuations and identified that low-skilled workers would fit in the model from further deductive research. (Atkinson & Torrington, 1984; 2004).
However I accentuate that this model was not a direct theory to test in a deductive way, there were flaws in the model, as it applied, as the name suggests periphery, which is not specific enough to my answer, therefore the decision on making an inductive reasoning would be better as a justification choice. In addition, the method, also known as the "bottom up" also requires less testing, but more observational methods. (Dunn & Wickham, 2012) All in all, deductive reasoning will create a theory with observations.
Grounded theory is applied to the inductive reasoning approach. ‘Grounded theory is a research strategy whose purpose is to generate theory from data’ (Punch, 2014). It relates, on how the data will be analysed to create a theory, through the use of the Grounded Theory. This Grounded theory concerns with more how humans have learnt, and according to Glaser (1967) grounded theory is fai...

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...eir contribution to the research. A guiding principle is that participants need to be in control of the disclosure of their identity and their contribution.

As the University prevents the research under 18, there are other venerability in groups where one didn’t realise there were a disability, such as Dyspraxia which is not a physical disability.

Having looked at the principles of ethics which are considered in social research there are many factors which should be applied to research, if something, this is the most important, as ethics should determine the research. The biggest flaw of this is youth – making sure they are above 18, even though youth can be the age of 16. The employers expressing their thoughts about their reasons and making sure that they are not breaking the law, and converting it to a generalisation idea which could be illegal thus unethical.