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

Ragin, Charles C. [Hrsg.] ; Becker, Howard Saul, 1928-2023 [Hrsg.]

Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1992

VIII, 242 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

Englisch

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

0-521-42050-4 (hardback); 0-521-42188-8 (paperback); 978-0-521-42050-1 (Hardback); 978-0-521-42188-1 (Paperback)

0521420504, b92X2011, 0521421888, b92X2010

OCoLC: 25164761     

OCoLC: 25164761 (aus SWB)     

MR 2400  | MR 2000      Ähnliche Literatur

HM48

301.072 ; 301/.072 ; 301

Basisklassifikation: 70.03 (Methoden, Techniken und Organisation der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung)

*Soziologie ; Methodologie ; Aufsatzsammlung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Sociology -- Research -- Methodology

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