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6. Theory definition

  • The process of making imprecise notions more specific and precise
  • provides an answer to the RQ and tells us why that answer is expected by specifying the key mechanism, chain of events or reactions or changes which connect the independent variable with the dependent variable
  • An educated guess
  • expectations, causal mechanisms, assumptions, scope

7. Elements of a theory

  • normative, hypothetical, factual, empirical
  • Conceptualisation, operationalisation
  • Expectations, causal mechanisms, assumptions, scope
  • the research cycle