This
atheoretical study described the attitudes, self-image, and quality of life (QoL) of individuals after organ donation.
Transcendence of the simplistic and very typically
atheoretical (Muntaner et al., 1996) black-white dichotomization of "race" is a needed first step toward making the research in this field practically useful.
According to most specialists in applied economics and econometrics, three alternative econometric methodologies have emerged since the mid-1970s, specifically, the average economic regression or textbook approach, the
atheoretical, time series analysis, and the London School of Economics approach.
On the other hand, volumes of collected essays can be disappointing because they have a tendency to be
atheoretical and to lack coherence or a clear guiding purpose.
The author complains that "so much of the work on the former Soviet Union was
atheoretical" without noting that this was largely due to the lack of information on domestic decision-making processes in the pre-glasnost' USSR.
However, Shover is working within an explicitly criminological context, and if issues such as class and identity are taken for granted, it is more to do with the discipline's
atheoretical nature than with any distinct failure on his behalf.
Several authors have expressed concern over the largely
atheoretical basis of exercise behavior research and suggested the need for theory-driven investigations (Dishman, 1993, 1994; King et al., 1992; Sallis & Hovell, 1990; Sonstroem, 1988).
Studies have tended to be
atheoretical and non-comparative" (ESRC, 1994:15).
However, the book as a whole is
atheoretical and does not contain in-depth statistical analysis.
According to Sims (1980b), VARs simply represented an
atheoretical technique for describing how a set of historical data was generated by random innovations in the variables of interest.