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What Is a Case?
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Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521421881
Veröffentl:
2010
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
22.07.2010
Seiten:
254
Autor:
Howard Saul Becker
Gewicht:
418 g
Format:
229x152x16 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The concept of the case is a basic feature of social science research and yet many questions about how a case should be defined, how cases should be selected and what the criteria are for a good case or set of cases are far from settled.
Introduction; 1. Cases of 'what is a case?' Charles C. Ragin; Part I. Cases Are Found: 2. Small Ns and community case studies Douglas Harper; 3. What do cases do? Some notes on activity in sociological analysis Andrew Abbott; Part II. Cases Are Objects: 4. Small Ns and big conclusions: an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small number of cases Stanley Lieberson; 5. Theory elaboration: the heuristics of case analysis Diane Vaughan; Part III. Cases Are Made: 6. Case studies: history or sociology? Michel Wieviorka; 7. Making theoretical cases John Walton; Part IV. Cases Are Conventions: 8. Cases on cases ... of cases Jennifer Platt; 9. Cases are for identity, for explanation, or for control; Conclusion; 10. Cases, causes, conjunctures, stories and imagery Howard C. White.