According to Pat Thompson, there are three stages to empirical analysis, which we will adopt for the purposes of planning y

According to Pat Thompson, there are three stages to empirical analysis, which we will adopt for the purposes of planning your analytical journey on this project. The third stage is that your data should be finally theorised. In this stage you are asking not what is happening but why These are my findings, why is this so? What does this mean for xyz? Pat describes this as “seeking a greater explanation and connection with broader understandings of the world. This is generally where some kind of social theory is mobilised. Texts which use Stage Three typically invoke some kind of psychological, sociological, philosophical, historical etc literatures, and often a key writer or tradition.”