Charles Ragin / Howard Saul Becker (eds.)

What Is a Case?

Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
Herausgeber: Becker, Howard Saul; Ragin, Charles C.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780521421881
• ISBN-10: 0521421888
• Artikelnr.: 21469192

Inhaltsangabe

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.