The SAGE handbook of case-based methods / edited by David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2009Description: xvii, 542 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1412930510
- 9781412930512
- Handbook of case-based methods
- Case-based methods
- 300.72 22
- H62 .S2745 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Mjoset -- 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 -- Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Analysis / Colin Elman -- Introducing Cluster Analysis: What can it teach us about the Case? / Emma Uprichard -- Visualising Types: The Potential of Correspondence Analysis / Dianne Phillips and John Phillips -- How Classification Works, Or Doesn't: The Case of Chronic Pain / Emma Whelan -- Case-Centred Methods and Quantitative Analysis / Ray Kent -- The Logic and Assumptions of MDSO - MSDO Designs / Gisele De Meur and Alain Gottcheiner -- The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis [QCA]: Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison / Benoit 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 -- Computer-Based Qualitative Methods in Case-Study Research / Nigel Fielding and Richard Warnes -- Extending the Ethnographic Case Study / Sean O 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.
"Case-based methods have a long history in the social sciences. They are extensively used and raise many practical and theoretical questions. This book provides a comprehensive, critical examination of case-oriented research. It offers concrete proposals about the best research methods and provides an unparalleled guide to the emergence and complexity of the field."--Publisher's website.
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