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A case for the case study / edited by Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum, and Gideon Sjoberg.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: viii, 290 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0807819735
  • 9780807819739
  • 0807843210
  • 9780807843215
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 21
LOC classification:
  • HM48 .C37 1991
Contents:
Introduction : the nature of the case study / Anthony M. Orum, Joe R. Feagin, and Gideon Sjoberg -- The case study approach in social research : basic methodological issues / Gideon Sjoberg [and others] -- Middletown as an urban case study / Howard M. Bahr and Theodore Caplow -- A tale of two cases / Anthony M. Orum and Joe R. Feagin -- Researching the homeless : the characteristic features and virtues of the case study / David A. Snow and Leon Anderson -- Oenology : the making of New wine / R. Stephen Warner -- The case study method in sociological criminology / Gilbert Geis -- Case studies and the sociology of gender / Christine L. Williams -- Case study in family research / Gerald Handel -- Conclusion : The present crisis in U.S. sociology / Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum and Gideon Sjoberg.
Summary: "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" -- Publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the nature of the case study / Anthony M. Orum, Joe R. Feagin, and Gideon Sjoberg -- The case study approach in social research : basic methodological issues / Gideon Sjoberg [and others] -- Middletown as an urban case study / Howard M. Bahr and Theodore Caplow -- A tale of two cases / Anthony M. Orum and Joe R. Feagin -- Researching the homeless : the characteristic features and virtues of the case study / David A. Snow and Leon Anderson -- Oenology : the making of New wine / R. Stephen Warner -- The case study method in sociological criminology / Gilbert Geis -- Case studies and the sociology of gender / Christine L. Williams -- Case study in family research / Gerald Handel -- Conclusion : The present crisis in U.S. sociology / Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum and Gideon Sjoberg.

"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" -- Publisher.

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