This article, as well as providing useful revision of the structure/action debate in sociology, will give you important material to gain marks for evaluation in exam answers about the relationship between sociological theories and methods. Matt Rogers provides you with some useful examples of instances where structuralist sociologists have favoured methods more usually linked with interpretivists, and vice versa. Examples are also given of studies where two different types of method have been combined. Keep a place in your folder for noting summaries of sociologists and their research studies and add those from this article.
You will be familiar with the ideas in the following paragraph, which is quite typical of what many students write when asked about the relationship between sociological theory and methods:
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