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Research philosophy and approaches to theory development (5 major…

- - - - methodological choice, research strategy and data collection techniques and analysis procedures
        
        coherent research
- - - - for broad view, decide what's legitimate knowledge
- - - - Nominalism: extreme, saying that social phenomena are created by us through use of language, conceptual categories, perception and consequent actions, no underlying reality because each person have different reality
        
        there are multiple realities
      - Social contructionism: less extreme, reality is contruscted through social interaction, social actos partially share meaning and reality
- - - - sensation: events no experience (enough for critical realism)
      - mental processing: after we experience by reason backward
  - - - phenomenologist: study existence, focus on participants lived experience, recollctions and intepretation of those experience
      - hermeneuticist: study cultural artefacts
      - symbolic interactionist: pragmatist thinking, meaning emerge from interactions between people, focus on observation and analysis of social interaction
- - - - put forward tentative idea, premises, hypothesis (testable) to form theory
      - by existing literature, deduce testable proposition or no of proposition
      - examine the premises and logic of argument that produce them, compare with existing theory to see if it advanced
      - test the premise by collect data to measure the concept of variables and analyse them
      - if result of ananlysis arent consistent with premises -> false -> reject or modify and restart the process
      - if ture - > theory is corroborated
      - Combine
        
        Often one is dominat
        
        time available: deduction is quick, other 2 need time for collect data
        
        risk: deduction is low-risk because no theory may emeger for other 2 and too many literature
        
        emphasize of reserach: inductive have little literature / abductive have many but no context
    - - Search to explain causal relationship between concepts and variables
      - Structured method to facilitate replication and ensure reliability
      - operationalised to enable facts being measured, often quantitatively
      - reductionism when problem as a whole are better understood if being reduced to the simplist form
      - generalisation: select sample carefully and suffice size
  - - - understand the nature of problem, make sense of collected data by formulate theory
  - - - integrate explanation in an overall conceptual framework to build theory