In this weeks theme we were suppose to read two texts Gregor, S. (2006). The Nature of Theory in Information Systems and Sutton, R. I. & Staw, B. M. (1995). What Theory is Not. We were also suppose to choose another text by ourselves. The text that I choose was Thomas J. Johnson, Credibility of Social Network Sites for Political Information Among Politically Interested Internet Users. I always like to choose my own texts, then I can choose the topic that I find most interesting and then the reading gets easier.
During the seminar we all went thru or texts. First in small groups, In my group we discussed a lot what was the difference between hypotheses and a theory and everyone told what theories there text had used. After we were done in the groups we started to talk about the texts in full class. This gave a new perspective on what theory really is. Thing that were said during the seminar was the a hypothesis is when I am wondering something and a theory is when a get a reason/answer to something. When looking at that explanation it is pretty easy to divid hypothesis from theory. But knowing that and also knowing that a big amount of hypothesis together can create a theory (this was also mentioned during class) makes it really hard to divide the two.
Hey Elma!
SvaraRaderaDuring the seminar we also discussed the difference between what theory and hypothesis is. What I learned is that theory is an amount of statements and it is the theory that makes is possible to form a hypothesis. Great that when you discussed the theme in full class it gave you new perspective about what theory is and that it also came to your senses what the difference between theory and hypothesis is. Great job! /Hannah
Hi, it is good that after seminar and lecture, you got a better perspective of what a theory is, at first I had a hard time understanding the difference between a theory and a hypothesis, it was not easy. However, I can notice that you understood the main differences, I got the point in a similar way as you expressed. The hypothesis is an idea that is assumed for a specific topic, while a theory defines why of these ideas. In addition, a theory can generate hypotheses that can be validated or refuted through different methods.
SvaraRaderaLike you at the seminar, we also discuss the different papers that each one selected, which helped us to better understand what a theory is and how some times to find a theory is not as easy as we can think.
Isaac Rondon
Hi Elma,
SvaraRaderaDuring seminar we also discussed a lot the difference between theory and hypothesis. Honestly, before this theme I was also thinking that hypothesis and theory is almost same but after reading the paper i have chosen for this theme i realized that hypothesis is assumptions/statements to prove in terms of true and false but theory is explanation of phenomena that can give birth to several hypothesis.
Good job!