What is a case? : exploring the foundations of social inquiry / edited by Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992Description: viii, 242 pISBN: - 0521421888
- 301.072
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 301.072 WHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A076059B |
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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.
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