Theoretical strategies are metatheoretical structures that guide construction of specific substantive theories. Postpositivism treats them as incorrigible and incommensurable, hence choice among them as irrational and change as discontinuous rather than “growth.” But strategies are not all of a piece. Some elements are more corrigible and commensurable than others. At the level of “working strategies,” which are more specific and concrete directives for constructing theories and doing research, it is possible to choose strategies and “grow” on rational grounds of reason and evidence.
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