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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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1991]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the nature of the case study / Anthony M. Orum, Joe R. Feagin, and Gideon Sjoberg
- The case study approach in social research : basic methodological issues / Gideon Sjoberg [and others]
- Middletown as an urban case study / Howard M. Bahr and Theodore Caplow
- A tale of two cases / Anthony M. Orum and Joe R. Feagin
- Researching the homeless : the characteristic features and virtues of the case study / David A. Snow and Leon Anderson
- Oenology : the making of New wine / R. Stephen Warner
- The case study method in sociological criminology / Gilbert Geis
- Case studies and the sociology of gender / Christine L. Williams
- Case study in family research / Gerald Handel
- Conclusion : The present crisis in U.S. sociology / Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum and Gideon Sjoberg.