Technique vs Method vs Methodology: Difference between revisions

Methods are then defined as <u>tools used by methodologies for limited purposes</u>. They may, therefore, be detachable from a particular methodology and the theory that lies behind it. Models, procedures and techniques are examples of methods. Thus, the robin-round approach to collecting ideas in [[Structured Democratic Dialogue]], the particilar approach used to cluster ideas, the [[Interpretive Structural Modeling]] used for mapping are all methods.

Jackson argued (Jackson, 2000) that it is particularaly insightful to link methodology closely to theory and to see different principles of method use as related to different theoretical positions.