Research Catalog

Title

What is a case? : exploring the foundations of social inquiry / edited by Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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Additional Authors

• Ragin, Charles C.
• Becker, Howard S. (Howard Saul), 1928-

Description

viii, 242 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The contributors probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and results of research.

Subject

• Sociology > Methodology
• Sociology
• Research Design
• Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : cases of "what is a case? " / Charles C. Ragin -- Cases of cases ... of cases / Jennifer Platt -- What do cases do? : some notes on activity in sociological analysis / Andrew Abbott -- Cases are for identity, for explanation, or for control / Harrison C. White -- Small N's and big conclusions : an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small number of cases / Stanley Lieberson -- Making the theoretical case / John Walton -- Small N's and community case studies / Douglas Harper -- Case studies : history or sociology? / Michel Wieviorka -- Theory elaboration : the heuristics of case analysis / Diane Vaughan -- Cases, causes, conjunctures, stories, and imagery / Howard S. Becker -- "Casing" and the process of social inquiry / Charles C. Ragin.

ISBN

• 0521420504 (hardback)
• 0521421888 (paperback)

LCCN

^^^91047663^

OCLC

• 25164761
• SCSB-10523154

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library