The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods

Herausgeber: Byrne, David; Ragin, Charles Christopher

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook provides a clear, critical examination of case-oriented research. It defines case-based social research as a subfield of methodology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 562
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1139g
• ISBN-13: 9781412930512
• ISBN-10: 1412930510
• Artikelnr.: 26017977

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION: Case-Based Methods: Why We Need Them; What They Are; How to
Do Them - David Byrne
PART ONE: THE METHODOLOGICAL CONTEXT OF CASE-BASED METHODS
Complexity and Case - David L Harvey
The Contextualist Approach to Social Science Methodology - Lars Mjøset
Reflexivity, Realism and the Process of Casing - Bob Carter and Alison
Sealey
Single-Case Probabilities - Malcolm Williams and Wendy Dyer
Complex Realist and Configurational Approaches to Cases: A Radical
Synthesis - David Byrne
PART TWO: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF CASE-BASED RESEARCH
Typologies - Ways of Sorting Things Out
Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Analysis - Colin Elman
Introducing Cluster Analysis: What Can It Teach Us about the Case? - Emma
Uprichard
Visualizing Types: The Potential of Correspondence Analysis - Dianne
Phillips and John Phillips
How Classification Works, Or Doesn¿t: The Case of Chronic Pain - Emma
Whelan
Quantitative Approaches to Case Based Methods
Case-Centred Methods and Quantitative Analysis - Ray Kent
The Logic and Assumptions of MDSO - MSDO Designs - Gisèle De Meur and Alain
Gottcheiner
The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for
Thick Cross-Case Comparison - Benoît Rihoux and Bojana Lobe
On the Duality of Cases and Variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) - Ronald L Breiger
Using Cluster Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis and NVivo in
Relation to the Establishment of Causal Configurations with Pre-existing
Large N Datasets: Machining Hermeneutics - David Byrne
Qualitative Approaches to Case-Based Research
Computer-Based Qualitative Methods in Case-Study Research - Nigel Fielding
and Richard Warnes
Extending the Ethnographic Case Study - Seán Ó Riain
Scope in Case-Study Research - Gary Goertz and James Mahoney
Small-N Access Cases to Refine Theories of Social Exclusion and Access to
Socially Excluded Individuals and Groups - Nick Emmel and Kahryn Hughes
Using Comparative Data: A Systems Approach to a Multiple Case Study - Fred
Carden
PART THREE: CASE-BASED METHODS IN DISCIPLINES AND FIELDS
Making the Most of an Historical Case Study: Configuration, Sequence,
Casing, and the US Old-Age Pension Movement - Edwin Amenta
Poetry and History: The Case for Literary Evidence - John Walton
Social Interactions and the Demand for Sport: Cluster Analysis in Economics
- Paul Downward and Joseph Riordan
The Proper Relationship of Comparative-Historical Analysis to Statistical
Analysis: Subordination, Integration or Separation? - James Mahoney and P
Larkin Terrie
Case Studies and the Configurational Analysis of Organizational Phenomena -
Peer C Fiss
The Case in Medicine - Frances Griffiths
Team-Based Aggregation of Qualitative Case Study Data in Health Care
Contexts: Challenges and Learning - Sue Dopson, Ewan Ferlie, Louise
Fitzgerald and Louise Locock
Working with Cases in Development Contexts: Some Insights from an Outlier -
Pip Bevan
Non-Nested and Nested Cases in a Socioeconomic Village Study - Wendy Olsen
Causality and Interpretation in Qualitative Policy-Related Research - David
Byrne, Wendy Olsen and Sandra Duggan
Reflections on Casing and Case-Oriented Research - Charles C Ragin