TY  - BOOK
AU  - Byrne,D.S.
AU  - Ragin,Charles C.
TI  - The SAGE handbook of case-based methods
SN  - 1412930510
AV  - H62 .S2745 2009
U1  - 300.72 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Case studies
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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