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These combinations of contingent and necessary relationships can easily mislead. It often happens that, although a particular combination of objects is contingent, when it does happen to occur, certain tendencies follow necessarily; for example, it is contingent whether capital ever uses electric power, but, where it does, its actions are constrained and enabled by the range of inherent (necessary) powers and liabilities of electricity. Moreover, a complicating factor is that the powers and liabilities of people can change as they learn new skills, as they come to understand their situation differently, and as they adopt new forms of organizations with their own powers and liabilities; for example, unions possess powers not wholly reducible to those of the individuals who constitute them.
In the third and main section, the particular issues mentioned above are discussed as instances of these problems and their consequences illustrated in terms of understanding concrete phenomena by means of examples drawn largely from our research. 2 Underlying Problems of Theory, Method, and Orientation These cover the content of theory, method or the way theory is used in concrete research, and the general orientations or patterns of selection of material in con- 30 ANDREW SAYER ducting research.
But for those of us in universities the intellectual difficulty was, at least, a normal challenge. In these early years many young faculty members participated, as did many graduate students. Some of them have gone on to be famous (and though some have changed their stripes most will generously acknowledge the formative nature of the whole experience). They came from all manner of disciplines (Philosophy, Math Sciences, Political Theory, History of Science, English, Geography, History, Sociology, Economics .