theoretical generalisation definition
theoretical generalisation. (Robson, 2011, p.160), which means that the data gained can provide theoretical insights that, if acted on, may have a profound effect on the development of engineering ethics education. The CR enquiry thus aims at “developing causal explanations that map the components of a social phenomenon across stratified reality, spelling out what the relevant objects, structures, mechanisms and conditions are to that phenomenon” (Hoddy, 2019, p. 113). This means there is a “judgemental rationality” operating, that allows researchers “to select theories which most accurately represent the ‘domain of real’ given our existing knowledge” (Xiaoti Hu, 2018, p.130).