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This chapter focuses not on fact-finding or truth-seeking (the functions of methods) but on questionraising and redescription (the functions of theory). To oversimplify for the sake of brevity, although the method-oriented researcher seeks to get the facts right and find the truth, the theory-oriented scholar confronts established truthsby reconciling incoherent elementsof a theory intoamorecoherentnarrative, by reinterpreting the findings, or by deploying new and different categories to reframe the question.
