TY - BOOK AU - Gomm,Roger AU - Hammersley,Martyn AU - Foster,Peter TI - Case study method: key issues, key texts SN - 0761964134 AV - H61 .C277 2000 U1 - 300.722 PY - 2000/// CY - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif. PB - SAGE KW - Social sciences KW - Methodology KW - Case method N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 'Intrinsic Case Study and Generalizability -- 1. The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry -- Robert E. Stake -- 2. The Only Generalization is: There is -- No Generalization -- Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon G. Guba -- 3. Generalizability and the Single-Case Study -- Robert Donmoyer -- 4. Increasing the Generalizability of -- Qualitative Research -- Janet Ward Schofield -- 5. Case Study and Generalization -- Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley and Peter Foster -- Case Study and Theory -- 6. Case Study and Theory in Political Science -- Harry Eckstein -- 7. Case and Situation Analysis -- J. Clyde Mitchell -- 8. The Logical Structure of Analytic Induction -- W.S. Robinson -- 9. The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research -- Ralph H. Turner -- 10. Small N's and Big Conclusions: An -- Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative -- Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases -- Stanley Lieberson -- 11. Cases, Causes, Conjunctures, Stories and Imagery -- Howard S. Becker -- 12. Case Study and Theory -- Martyn Hammersley, Roger Gomm and Peter Foster -- An Annotated Bibliography -- Index ER -