The overarching framework for understanding a research problem, the researcher's culture, is known as:
a. Low-level theory.
b. Middle-level theory.
c. High-level theory.
d. A paradigm.
e. General Systems theory
Question 2
Middle-level theory is important because:
a. It addresses the big questions that concern social and historical scientists.
b. It is the overarching framework to understand a research question.
c. It defines the form and context of the data to allow for comparison.
d. It enables archaeologists to infer human behavior and/or natural processes from archaeological data.
e. It allows archaeologists to know that their data are comparable.