What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

ISBN 10: 0521421888 / ISBN 13: 9780521421881

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 1992

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• Titolo: What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521421888
• ISBN 13: 9780521421881
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: Acceptable

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Riassunto

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.

Recensione

"There is sociology of sociology here, many recountings of field adventures, tips on data collection and analysis, and discussions of substantive topics as diverse as crime, religion, gender, family, cities, social problems, and social movements...a good read." Contemporary Sociology

"This is not a book to be missed. The issues raised and discussed insure it a wide readership for, I predict, many years. They pertain to the nature and use of cases by us all, whether we are researchers, theorists, or both." Anselm Strauss, University of California, San Francisco

"...enormously stimulating and enlightening. The book will not only be a pure delight for comparative methodologists in the social sciences but also, more importantly, a rich source of useful insights and fresh perspectives for the much larger number of empirical comparative researchers." Arend Lijphart, University of California, San Diego

"A must for anyone concerned with methods of inquiry in the social sciences...it raises a host of basic issues about empirical social science. The authors deal with these issues in a uniformly penetrating manner." Harry Eckstein, University of California, Irvine

"[T]here is something of value in the book for almost anyone....What Is a Case? is a useful book, reflecting a new level of methodological/theoretical self-awareness and subtlety of the kind that will benefit the discipline." Alan Sica, American Journal of Sociology