by Hamel, Jacques, Fortin, Dominic, Dufour, Stephanie
fromQualitative research methods series
Case Study Research: Principles and Practices provides a general understanding of the case study method as well as specific tools for its successful implementation. These tools are applicable in a variety of fields including anthropology, business and management, communications,…
"This book provides a fresh and stimulating approach to causal analysis in the social sciences. International experts provide not just the philosophical arguments for a case-based approach to research but also detailed chapters on: 'why-to', 'when-to' and 'how-to'. Traditional d…
The concept of the "case" is a basic feature of social science research. The contributors to this volume probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of what a case is affect the conduct and the results of research. Contents: Introduction- Cases of…
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual analysis, and surrogate ethnography. In "Being There", John Borneman and Abdellah …
Explains how to design case study research that will produce results useful to policymakers and it emphasises the imporatnce of developing policy-related theories. It offers three major contributions to case study methodology. This book will be of use to graduate students and sc…
