Use your imagination.  Do you think you can program this with 'steps'?

Example:

Social Policies for Homelessness

Step 1:

Gather information

Step 2:

Analysis different perspectives.

Analysis the perspective from the micro level, mezzo level and macro level.

Step 3:

Find supporting information

Find theories that support the issue

This as far as I get. And I also have the same problem.  Can you explain further, please?

@Nicole,

You are providing a framework - borrowed, I guess, from an uncited methodology professor somewhere.

Providing a framework, whether interesting or pedestrian, is not answering Syamala's question - to wit, how do you create a framework.

Dear Shamala,

Spender is correct.  Most important aspect developing a conceptual framework is imagination. 

Upon imagination draw a simple sketch upon reviewed literature on the concepts that you have learned. 

 Refine the sketch with pertinent theories. Then  you may get a framework to refine further.  In this process you may loose the grip of he original research question.

Upananda

1. The first step suggested  for conceptual framework  is  to complete  your theoretical framework .

Draw a literature map to get better clarity on the linkages between various theories/papers( Refer Research Design book by Creswel), and also  to facilitate  identifying the research gaps.

2. Secondly , identify the set of independent variables ( IVs) and dependent variables( DVs)  , and also the  intervening variables .

3.Thirdly draw constructs wherever necessary .

It is a good idea to map and plot the research questions (RQs) and research hypothesis (H) on the arrows  in the framework connecting the important set of variables that are considered in your research .

4. Lastly ,  the end point of your conceptual framework should reflect the desired outcome of your research .

There is no universal rule or procedure to draw a conceptual framework.

Keep the conceptual framework simple with minimum data but  to get the maximum understanding while viewing it .

Thank you to JC Spender , Nicole Jenning, Upananda Witta Arachchilage & Aloysius Sequeira

i am in a state of confusion that how to relate theory and the research

my title was socio cultural factors influencing entrepreneurship for this i had listed some factors now how can i relate these factors to the theory and how can i write the conceptual framework for this???

@Colin,

Well, we are not making much progress here.  There's a split between those, such as Colin and Nicole, who want to approach this in a systematic way - as if their system is a kind of answer-producing machine, a computer no less - and those, like myself, who point towards one's own imagination, no outside machine, just one's own mind.

Of course to the system-computing folks pointing to a person's imagination does not seem like any kind of answer, more of a non-answer.

This is too bad.  Why would one want to deny one's own imaginative capability?  Is there anyone who has not experienced their own imagination?

The wish to deny its impact on our lives is all about the rhetoric of science, the pursuit of objectivity.  It is easy to misunderstand 'why science?'  Does anyone still really think it is capable of telling us about a reality that is independent of us?  To the contrary science is a human artifact, our looking at everything through our own eyes and minds.  this does not diminish it.  It simply applauds science as something we humans have produced rather than being something like a mountain or a bug which another - perhaps God - has produced.  To have imagination is to have humility in the face of the awesomeness of our situation.

People who blindly head in the direction of believing that we have certain knowledge of reality are missing out on the entirety of philosophy, variously described as 'learning how to die' or, more conveniently, doing more to make sure you understand the words you use.

Imagination is a way of describing our ability to make a difference that cannot be foretold in some kind of causal model.  I want to believe I can make a difference, maybe in the discourse of science, or in some other person's life.  I do not see myself as an un-choosing billiard-ball propelled by forces that I can never know.

So here's the paradox.  Does this conversation have the possibility of changing anyone's mind?  If yes, it is because the person being changed has imagination.  If no, then we have no choice, we are just some kind of celestial clock, marking time until we are no longer thinking.

Dear Syamala, I agree there is imagination required to suggesting a framework, but I will have a go at suggesting some steps for you:

1. You have listed the key socio cultural factors relevant to you. Look at them: do you find some logical grouping that makes it easier to describe them and discuss them? Then do so. Let's call this group A.

2. What aspects of entrepreneurship are you studying? How do you know these aspects have got influenced? What outcomes are you measuring to be sure of this "influence"? Group these measures if they are too many. Let's call this group B.

3. What are the relationships in the literature between key items in a & B? What relationships do you expect? Draw some of these? Review these diagrams. Which ones have greater clarity? Which ones explain your findings? Which ones suggest further exploration? Would you like to redraw some of the lines? 

Do a few iterations of steps 1-3. Discuss the final options with peers. Go ahead with what seems best to explain your research!

All good comments above.

I would add two more. Be clear - 

1. What is the purpose?

2. Clarify the 'boundary conditions'! (what is in and what is out/to be considered/not considered).

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@ Justin

But are these 'givens', to be found in 'the real'?

JC,

To which "givens" are you referring to?

Justin

Didn't you just write - 

1. What is the purpose?

2. Clarify the 'boundary conditions'! (what is in and what is out/to be considered/not considered).

Hi Syamala:

You haven't given us much to work on here, but I would always start by considering the underlying theory of what you want to "frame" or analyse. I realise that the social sciences talk about constructs and frames rather than theory, but theory is what I'm talking about. And it is far more useful if it's cast in a way that can be tested (falsified).

There is always a theoretical basis underlying any claim about issues or problems, each discipline has (or should have) an underlying theory, which some would call assumptions if you like. So this is always a good place to start your analysis.  The next thing to do is to "consider all factors" that you think may even remotely impinge upon the problem. The third point is to "consider bias" and its sources that occurs in all analysis, many from rule of thumb, our lazy everyday thinking, but the most decisive bias is our own world view. It colours everything we do and what we think, so we need to be clear on what we believe to be true, and what we are only assuming to be true, wish to be true, or are being misled deliberately to think is true. (Governments, religions, cults and the newspapers mislead us on a daily basis, so it's hard to keep the truth sorted.)

Since the truth (your framework) can only be what you know, you might have to do a lot of hard thinking and research on your assumptions and the underlying theory of your discipline before you can go forward on this investigation. 

Best of luck with it.