A Case for the Case Study (Paperback, New edition)

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 contains an overview of the central methodological issues involved in the use of the case study method. Then, well-known scholars describe how they undertook case study research in order to undersand changes in church involvement, city life, gender roles, white-collar crimes, family structure, homelessness, and other types of social experience. Each contributor contronts several key questions: What does the case study tell us that other approaches cannot? To what extent can one generalize from the study of a single case or of a highly limited set of cases? Does case study work provide the basis for postulating broad principles of social structure and behavior? The answers vary, but the consensus is that the opportunity to examine certain kinds of social phenomena in depth enables social scientists to advance greatly our empirical understanding of social life.
The contributors are Leon Anderson, Howard M. Bahr, Theodore Caplow, Joe R. Feagin, Gilbert Geis, Gerald Handel, Anthonly M. Orum, Andree F. Sjoberg, Gideon Sjoberg, David A. Snow, Ted R. Vaughan, R. Stephen Warner, Christine L. Williams, and Norma Williams.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1991
First published:	October 1991
Editors:	Gideon Sjoberg
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	300
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-4321-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8078-4321-0
Barcode:	9780807843215

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