TY - JOUR AU - Shutes, Mark T. PY - 1996/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - TAILORED RESEARCH: ON GETTING THE RIGHT FIT BETWEEN MACROLEVEL THEORY AND MICRO-LEVEL DATA JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Archeological and Anthropological Approaches to World-Systems DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1996.89 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/89 SP - 239-253 AB - Ethnographers often criticize broad theoretical models, such as the one offered by General Systems Theory, as being insensitive to unique historical processes and events that can dramatically affect decision-making at the local level. Using data drawn fromboth a Greek and an Irish rural community, this work examines the validity of such criticism and concludes that there is no necessary inconsistency between variable-level theory and data, provided that the ethnography itself incorporates the appropriate kinds of data. ER -