The SAGE handbook of case-based methods. (©2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of case-based methods
• Further Information: Note: Edited by David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin.
• Other Names: Byrne, D. S (David S.), 1947-; Ragin, Charles C
• Contents: 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 Mjøset; 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; Typologies - Ways of Sorting Things Out; Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Analysis - Colin Elman; Introducing Cluster Analysis: What Can It Teach Us about the Case? - Emma Uprichard; Visualizing Types: The Potential of Correspondence Analysis - Dianne Phillips and John Phillips; How Classification Works, Or Doesn't: The Case of Chronic Pain - Emma Whelan; Quantitative Approaches to Case Based Methods; Case-Centred Methods and Quantitative Analysis - Ray Kent; The Logic and Assumptions of MDSO - MSDO Designs - Gisèle De Meur and Alain Gottcheiner; The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison - Benoît 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; Qualitative Approaches to Case-Based Research; Computer-Based Qualitative Methods in Case-Study Research - Nigel Fielding and Richard Warnes; Extending the Ethnographic Case Study - Seán Ó 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;
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles [Calif.] London : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2009
• Copyright Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 542 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 300.723; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- Case studies; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology; Electronic books; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781446249413; 1446249417; 9781446206669; 1446206661
• Related ISBNs: 9781412930512; 1412930510; 9781446270448
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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