How to do your case study : a guide for students and researchers

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How to do your case study : a guide for students and researchers

Gary Thomas

Sage, 2011

  • : pbk

タイトル別名

How to do your case study : a guide for students & researchers

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Case Study is one of the most widely applied methods of research and instruction in use today. Cases are used to frame research, aid teaching and help learning the world over. Yet, despite being so widely used, there remains a great deal of uncertainty about what constitutes case study research and how case studies should be designed and carried out. In this lucid, accessible and often witty new text, Gary Thomas introduces students and researchers to the basics of case study research. Using a wide range of real-life examples, this book sets out for those new to the method how best to design and carry out case studies in the social sciences and humanities How to do your case study: a guide for students and researchers deals with the core issues and methods that anyone new to case study will need to understand: - What is a case study? - When and why should case study methods be used? - How are case studies designed? - What methods can be used? - How do we analyse and make sense of our data? - How do we write up and write about our case? How to do your Case Study will be essential reading for any student or researcher in the Social Sciences, Health Sciences, in Business Studies, in Education and the Humanities.

目次

PART ONE: GETTING YOUR BEARINGS What Is a Case Study? Case Study and Research Design Models of the Whole Ensuring Quality in Your Case Study: What's Important? PART TWO: GETTING DOWN TO DOING IT Kinds of Case Studies: Finding Your Case Your Purpose Your Approach Your Process PART THREE: GETTING ON WITH IT AND FINISHING Out in the Field: Some Ways to Collect Data and Evidence A Toolkit for Analyzing and Thinking Writing Your Study The Fancy Stuff: Generalization, Induction, Abduction, Phronesis and Theory

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詳細情報
  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB05874180
  • ISBN
    • 9780857025630
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Los Angeles
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 231 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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