A world apart? Bridging the gap between theory and applied social gerontology.
A world apart? Bridging the gap between theory and applied social gerontology.
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截然不同的世界？
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2010
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S. Kunkel
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J. Hendricks;R. Applebaum;S. Kunkel
本文的前提是，社会老年学的理论与应用研究之间的联系没有得到足够的重视。这篇文章认为，应用研究并不经常或有效地采用理论框架，基于理论的文章，包括基于理论的研究，并不经常关注与应用社会老年学相关的问题。我们探讨了理论和应用研究在多大程度上可以合理地预期重叠，提供了来自三个主要期刊5年来文章的分析数据，并对目前理论和应用社会老年学研究之间的鸿沟提出了一些可能的解释。我们认为，这种鸿沟削弱了研究，抑制了理论在帮助组织知识积累方面可以发挥的作用，我们就该领域如何应对这一挑战提出了一些建议，包括改变期刊评审和提交过程，以反映理论和/或概念模型与研究之间联系的重要性，以及扩大专业会议机会，以联系研究和实践。
This article is based on the premise that there is inadequate attention to the link between theory and applied research in social gerontology. The article contends that applied research studies do not often or effectively employ a theoretical framework and that theory-based articles, including theory-based research, are not often focused on questions related to applied social gerontology. We explore the extent to which theory and applied research could reasonably be expected to overlap, present data from an analysis of 5 years of articles in three leading journals, and posit some possible explanations for the current divide between theory and applied social gerontology research. We argue that the divide weakens research and inhibits the functions that theory can play in helping to organize the accumulation of knowledge, and we offer some suggestions about how the field can address this challenge, including changes to the journal review and submission process to reflect the importance of the link between theory and/or conceptual models and research, and an expansion of professional conference opportunities to link research and practice.