Clustering of theories according to communication field

Why do communication scholars cluster theories according to communication field? Before we go into why scholars cluster theories, we need to know what is cluster and theory. To put in a simple word, cluster is a class or a big title for something. In the context of communication studies, cluster is a big group where a lot theories will be divided or will be arrange into their own class/cluster. Below are the example of diagram to explain between cluster and theory 👇 There are few reasons why scholars cluster theories according to communication field. The reasons are: There a lot of communication theories and most of it cannot be use in more than 1 communication field. In communication field,there are a lot of communication theories to explain, describe and prescribe a research or a phenomenon. However, most phenomenas fall into a lot of categories. Therefore, the categories made the clusters exist. Theories must be classified into appropriate clusters because most theori...