¶ … Lens of Ravitch & Riggan
What and where is theory?
According to Hoffman (2013) theory has a lot to do with something that is causal, For instance from the chapter they mentioned the case if X represented smoking and Y symbolized lung cancer. The authors went on to make the point that this is more than likely the most extensively assumed meaning of what theory is supposed to be. However, the chapter goes onto make the point that it could also be interpretive. It brings up the point that X symbolized race and Y denoted identity. It is unlikely that you would be suggesting that race is somehow formed by identity.
Also, the authors would be arguing the meaning of race is somehow shaped by identity. It could be, however, that a person working the theory cannot figure out whether it is X or Y that is doing the determining, or if they should imagine that the two are equally influential. In this case, the person theory would be predominantly relational. The chapter went onto to make the point that irrespective of the kind of relationship that goes on among between X and Y, all of these theories have two things that are exactly in common. According to the first chapter, one of these things is that they are a logical assembly of conceptual pieces. (Duncan, 2011). (Clayton, (2010) makes the suggestion that these pieces start off with the sensations, which are then provided names (ideas), which arc then grouped (concepts), then connected to one another (suggestions), an d lastly ordered sensibly (theory). The chapter even presented a scenario, then the drawing on the page that was supposed to be able to represent either a plan or a theory, depending on "that X and Y indicate and the difficulty of the relationship among them. Second, they arc guarded to what is in the diagram.
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