Perhaps it is on account of this that major approaches collide as well as synchronise with 'fields', 'themes', 'methodologies'etc.Regardless of the fact that the latter may even mesh or intersect with the former.Apter has offered his own scheme without involving himself into the cobweb of either rigid traditionalism or modernism.His argument is that each of the main approaches to the study of politics has its own methodological emphases and subject areas or fields of study in the following manner.