However, a large part of chapter 3 has been based on a political theory (the Political Process Theory), which will be elaborated on in our theory chapter.
As already and clearly stated, we want our project to be about food waste in the UK. When saying this, we mean that we will primarily focus on the food waste of consumers. We also want to point out that it is only food waste and not waste in general we are investigating. We are only briefly going into food waste in connection to harvesting and food manufacturer's, but this is not our main focus. It could have given a broader perspective of food waste if we looked into e.g. the manufacturer's ways of wasting food, but we find that the points we have chosen will make it easier to go into depth on more specific areas. Going into a economic or environmental perspective would have been quite obvious and would also allow us to use more economic theories. However, as already stated, we feel that going into sociology, planning, space and resources and politics, while only briefly mentioning other perspectives, gives us a more specific and precise answer on our research question.
Methodology.
The most dominant method and also most fundamental method throughout our project is the Deductive Theory Method. It is due to this method that we have processed hypotheses to each of our empirical chapters which also serves as our working questions. However, another dominant method in our project is the qualitative method. It has been used primarily to find relevant quotes and other case studies on particular topics to backup our claims that we state throughout the project. Therefore most of the empirical data consists of journals, books, articles, websites and graphs, all of which have been important in our quest to get a broad sense of knowledge about the food waste within the U.K. In our project we also decided to use the quantitative method when needed.