there is a lack of consensus on what theory is. This article briefly discusses some views of theory within sociology and the lack of consensus over what constitutes theory. This lack of consensus makes it important that grounded theorists not only explain what is meant by a theory being grounde...
Following on from observation and description, a tentative understanding as to ‘why’ may be formulated and this is known as a hypothesis or the research question. This is usually to explore the cause, e.g. ‘why’ the apple fell to the ground? Reading and Placing in Context Reading from...
I wasn't able to get Santander to comment on your specific case but they did acknowledge that your experience with their customer service team didn't sound great – and confirmed that the correct answer is that two products cannot be merged, as is standard in the mortgage market. Money prob...
Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Lawmakers have until the end of the day on Friday, March 14, to fund the government. The House approved a short-term funding ...
to catch them with a butterfly net. By ‘humanoid’ we mean that big or small, ugly or beautiful fairies have a human form: dragons aren’t fairies, whereas mermaids or trolls could at a stretch be so classed. And ‘living’ is meant to help distinguish fairies from ghosts. However, ...
Better might be to adopt a more minimalist interpretation of what is meant by 'something has to be said' to those at the sharp end of the exercise political power, but then the question is what kind of 'something'; and the worry here is that it may turn out to be either too ...
A T-node is an agent and nothing more. The router updates the status record set for all tentative nodes that are directly linked to the source T-node. The router looks at all of the tentative nodes and chooses the one whose weight to V1 is lowest. That node is then the destination ...
Science and Technology Studies (STS). The motto of “deficit to dialogue” (Irwin2014; Stilgoe et al.2014) is still used as a guideline of current practice and also discussed as an unfulfilled promise (Lövbrand et al.2011; Cook and Melo2019). But what do we actually mean by ...
His deep ball isn’t falling with regularity, causing tentative play on the offensive end. Given his US$140-million contract, there are obvious concerns about Walker’s play. Is he struggling to be The Guy on a team that already had playoff-savvy stars...
The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. Scratch For or consisting of preliminary or tentative, incomplete, etc. work. This is scratch paper, so go ahead and scribble whatever you want on it. Score A line drawn; a groove...