How to Do Your Case Study
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Ensk lýsing:
Vibrant and insightful, this book introduces students and researchers to the basics of case study research. Adopting jargon-free language, it grounds its advice in concrete experience and real-world cases. Using examples from across the social sciences, Gary Thomas provides practical guidance on how best to read, design and carry out case study research with a focus on how to manage and analyze data.
The new edition of this bestselling book addresses crucial issues around ethics and has improved coverage of key themes such as rigor, validity, generalization and the analysis of case studies. It demystifies case study research and answers important questions such as: 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 analyze and make sense of our data? How do we write up and write about our case? Bursting with real-world examples and multidisciplinary cases, and supported by a dynamic new website, this book is essential reading for any student or researcher in the social sciences and humanities.
Lýsing:
This accessible guide takes you through the process of designing, conducting and writing up a research project using case study methods. In his characteristic warm and friendly style, Gary Thomas covers each step at a confidence-building pace, helping you to get to grips with the theory and practice of doing a case study. Focusing on vital issues like validity, reliability and quality in research, the author helps you ensure your research is rigorous and methodologically sound.
This third edition: · Offers an expanded discussion of key ethical issues in case study research · Provides up to date information about using social media in research · Presents a new navigation tool to help you plan your case study project · Enables you to develop the skills you need to become a critical and reflexive researcher Covering international examples of case study in practice and accompanied by downloadable checklists and templates, this book is the perfect companion to help you successfully complete a case study.
Annað
- Höfundur: Gary Thomas
- Útgáfa:3
- Útgáfudagur: 2021-01-27
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9781529755909
- Print ISBN: 9781529704952
- ISBN 10: 1529755905
Efnisyfirlit
- About the author
- Preface
- Online resources
- A roadmap for conducting a case study, using this book
- Stage 1 Getting Your Bearings
- 1 What is a case study?
- Is the case study scientific?
- Some definitions
- What is a case?
- The subject and object of a case study
- Forms of case study…and six steps to follow in devising your own
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 2 The case study and research design
- First things first: your purpose
- Next, your question
- Literature review
- Using the literature and a storyboard to help you design your case study
- This case study in the typology
- How to go from idea to question to case study
- Questions and different approaches to research
- Design frames and methods
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 3 The whole is more than the sum of the parts: seeing a complete picture
- Break things down or see them as wholes?
- Gestalt psychology
- Dramas, theatres and stages
- Ecological psychology
- Systems thinking
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 4 Rigour and quality in your case study: what is important?
- Is the ‘sample’ important in case study?
- Do I have to worry about reliability and validity in a case study?
- Triangulation
- Positionality
- Generalisation
- Theory
- Finding or regularising
- Quality
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 5 Ethics
- Your participants
- Vulnerable groups
- Participants’ activity
- Deception or concealment
- Confidentiality and anonymity
- Data security and stewardship
- Consent
- Risk
- Contacting participants
- Ethics and social media
- Care for your participants – and yourself
- Where do I put discussion about ethics in my case study write-up?
- Getting clearance – ethical review
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 1 What is a case study?
- 6 Different kinds of case studies: selecting a subject fory our case study
- How do you select your case study subject?
- Same starting points, different paths – there is no single right way
- The typology in practice
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 7 Your purpose: thinking about the object of your study
- Intrinsic
- Instrumental
- Evaluative
- Explanatory
- Exploratory
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 8 Your approach: theory testing or theory building; interpretation or illustration
- Theory testing or theory building
- Building a theory
- Testing a theory
- Drawing a picture – illustrative–demonstrative
- Interpretative
- Experimental
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 9 Your process: the shape, style and manner of your case study
- The single case
- Time as a dimension of the case study
- The multiple or collective or comparative case (or cross-case analysis)
- Nested case studies
- Parallel and sequential studies
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 10 Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence
- Interviews
- Accounts
- Diaries
- Group interviews and focus groups
- Interrogating documents
- Questionnaires
- Observation
- Image-based methods
- Measurements and tests
- Official statistics and other numerical data
- Using social media
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 11 Analysis: a toolkit for analysing and thinking in case study
- Interpretative inquiry: eliciting themes
- Sociograms
- Systems thinking
- Drawing storyboards – the nuts and bolts
- Developing your theory
- Using narrative
- Think drama
- Being intuitive and imaginative
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- 12 Writing your study
- Structure
- Writing up your case study
- Two examples of good analysis, argument and writing
- Some rules for writers
- Remember you have an audience
- If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
- … and this – a final thought
- Reflective activity
- Further reading
- Other reading
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