ABSTRACT
This chapter draws together the conclusions that have emerged in the immediately preceding discussion which itself is the result of the empirical work elaborated earlier in this study. This chapter also attempts to resolve what, from a narrow and positivist perspective, may be irresolvable. That is to say, the chapter also briefly considers the development of a synthesis, in the context of this largely interpretative study. One way of achieving that objective may be through the manner in which the task is defined. If a synthesis is framed in the sense of fitting together ideas into a composite whole, rather than its more usual sense of developing ‘thesis - anti-thesis - synthesis’, this would be helpful. In that case, the notion of synthesis is simply abandoned as a piece of positivist architecture. It imposes meaning upon social behaviour that it seeks, in reality, to understand.
