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What is a case? : exploring the foundations of social inquiry / edited by Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316103746
  • 1316103749
  • 9781316099926
  • 131609992X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What is a case?DDC classification:
  • 301/.072 22
LOC classification:
  • HM48 .W43 1992eb
Other classification:
  • 70.03
  • 361.16
  • 361.16
  • 361.16
  • 361.16
  • MR 2400
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : cases of "what is a case? " / Charles C. Ragin -- Cases of cases ... of cases / Jennifer Platt -- What do cases do? : some notes on activity in sociological analysis / Andrew Abbott -- Cases are for identity, for explanation, or for control / Harrison C. White -- Small N's and big conclusions : an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small number of cases / Stanley Lieberson -- Making the theoretical case / John Walton -- Small N's and community case studies / Douglas Harper -- Case studies : history or sociology? / Michel Wieviorka -- Theory elaboration : the heuristics of case analysis / Diane Vaughan -- Cases, causes, conjunctures, stories, and imagery / Howard S. Becker -- "Casing" and the process of social inquiry / Charles C. Ragin.
Summary: The contributors probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and results of research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : cases of "what is a case? " / Charles C. Ragin -- Cases of cases ... of cases / Jennifer Platt -- What do cases do? : some notes on activity in sociological analysis / Andrew Abbott -- Cases are for identity, for explanation, or for control / Harrison C. White -- Small N's and big conclusions : an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small number of cases / Stanley Lieberson -- Making the theoretical case / John Walton -- Small N's and community case studies / Douglas Harper -- Case studies : history or sociology? / Michel Wieviorka -- Theory elaboration : the heuristics of case analysis / Diane Vaughan -- Cases, causes, conjunctures, stories, and imagery / Howard S. Becker -- "Casing" and the process of social inquiry / Charles C. Ragin.

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The contributors probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and results of research.

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