A case for the case study / edited by Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum, and Gideon Sjoberg.
"Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative reserach: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book cont...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1991]
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| Summary: | "Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature. A Case for the Case Study provides a rationale for an alternative to quantitative reserach: the close investigation of single instances of social phenomena. The first section of the book contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case study research in order to undersand changes in church involvement, city life, gender roles, white-collar crimes, family structure, homelessness, and other types of social experience. Each contributor contronts several key questions: What does the case study tell us that other approaches cannot? To what extent can one generalize from the study of a single case or of a highly limited set of cases? Does case study work provide the basis for postulating broad principles of social structure and behavior? The answers vary, but the consensus is that the opportunity to examine certain kinds of social phenomena in depth enables social scientists to advance greatly our empirical understanding of social life" -- Publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 290 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807819735 9780807819739 0807843210 9780807843215 |