Case Study Research

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VOLUME ONE PART ONE: CLASSIC ARTICLES IN THE FOUNDING OF THE CASE STUDY TRADITION Case Study Method - Clifford R Shaw Statistics and Case Studies as Methods of Sociological Research - Ernest W Burgess Case Study of Small Institutions as a Method of Research - Charles H Cooley Round Table on the Case Study Method of Sociological Research - Stuart A Queen The Case Study Method in Social Research - Katharine Jocher The Limitations of Domestic Discord Case Records for Research - Dorothy C Kahn A Study of the Techniques of the Social Case Work Interview - Joanna C Colcord Murder and the Case Study Method - Robert E Park Science without Concepts - Herbert Blumer Teaching and Research Culture Case Study and Ideal-Typical Method - Howard Becker With Special Reference to Max Weber A Sociological Theory of Drug Addiction - Alfred R Lindesmith Notes on the Case Study and the Unique Case - Samual A Stouffer Case Study versus Statistical Methods - George A Lundberg An Issue Based on Misunderstanding The Theory of Case Studies - Paul B Foreman Criminal Violation of Financial Trust - Donald R Cressey PART TWO: CASES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC TRADITION The Community-Study Method - Conrad M Arensberg Body Ritual among the Nacirema - Horace Miner Ethnographic Data in British Social Anthropology - Max Gluckman Ethnographic Data in Social Anthropology in the United States - Fred Eggan The Analysis of Social Situations - G Kingsley Garbett On Ethnographic Authority - James Clifford Knowledge in Context - Brian Wynne The Monograph in European Ethnography - Francoise Zonabend Faulty Environments and Risk Reasoning - Alan Irwin, P Simmons and G Walker The Local Understanding of Industrial Hazards PART THREE: THE SCOPE AND LIMITS OF GENERALIZATION AND CAUSAL EXPLANATION IN CASE STUDY RESEARCH The Logical Structure of Analytic Induction - W S Robinson Rejoinder to Comments on 'The Logical Structure of Scientific Induction - W S Robinson Comment on W S Robinson's 'The Logical Structure of Analytic Induction - Alfred R Lindesmith Comment on W S Robinson's 'The Logical Structure of Analytic Induction - S Kirson Weinberg The Quest of Universals in Sociological Research - Ralph H Turner Problems of Inference and Proof in Participant Observation - Howard S Becker Generalizing from Single Case Studies - Mary M Kennedy Applying the Logic of Sample Surveys to Qualitative Case Studies - Charles C McClintock, Diane Brannon and Steven Maynard-Moody The Case Cluster Method The Case Study as a Serious Research Strategy - Robert K Yin Narrative Generalization - Robert E Stake and Deborah J Turnbull Case and Situation Analysis - J Clyde Mitchell On the Status of Singularity in Sociology - Jacques Hamel VOLUME TWO PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH The Case Study Method in Social Inquiry - Robert E Stake Case Study and Case Records - Lawrence Stenhouse Towards a Contemporary History of Education The Study of Samples and the Study of Cases - Lawrence Stenhouse Portraits of Exemplary Secondary School - Sara Lawrence Lightfoot George Washington Carver Comprehensive High School Effective Schools - William E Bickel Knowledge Dissemination, Inquiry The Principle as Prime Mover - Robert Donmoyer Multiple Qualitative Policy Research - Robert E Herriott and William A Firestone Optimizing Description and Generalizability Case Study Generalization - David H Tripp An Agenda for Action The Paradox of Case Study - Helen Simons PART FIVE: CASE STUDIES IN MEDICINE AND MENTAL HEALTH Statistical Inference and the Single Case in Clinical Design - J B Chassan The Life Review - Robert N Butler An Interpretation of Reminiscence in the Aged Face Recognition by Brain Injured Patients - Robert K Yin A Dissociable Ability? Remembering Drinks Orders - Henry L Bennett The Memory Skills of a Cocktail Waitress Accounting for Augustus Lamb - Hilary Dickenson Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Biography and Historical Sociology Existential and Clinical Uncertainty in the Medical Encounter - Christopher Adamson An Idographic Account of an Illness Trajectory defined by Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Avascular Necrosis The Missing Voice of the Critically Ill - David Rier A Medical Sociologist's First-Person Account Two Journeys - Devika Chawla VOLUME THREE PART SIX: CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN PLANNING AND POLICY STUDIES Using the Case Study Method to Analyze Policy Studies - Robert K Yin and Karen A Heald The Politics of Revitalization in Gentrifying Neighbourhoods - Deborah A Auger The Case of Boston's South End The Case Study Crisis - Robert K Yin Some Answers The Public Policy and Management Program for Case/Course Development - Duane Windsor and George Greavias Process Sampling - Charles C McClintock A Method for Case Study Research on Administrative Behaviour Cautions on the Use of Investigative Case Studies in Meta-Evaluation - Nick L Smith The Comparative Case Study Approach in Public Administration - Robert Agranoff and Beryl A Radin The Case Study Method as a Tool for Doing Evaluation - Robert K Yin PART SEVEN: CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN POLITICAL SCIENCE Degrees of Freedom and the Case Study - Donald T Campbell The Comparable Cases Strategy in Comparative Research - Arend Lijphart Rentier State and Shi'a Islam in the Iranian Revolution - Theda Skocpol Comments on Skocpol - Nikki R Keddie Comments on Skocpol - Eqbal Ahmad Commentary on Skocpol - Walter L Goldfrank Ideologies and Social Revolutions - William H Sewell Reflections on the French Case Cultural Idioms and Political Ideologies in the Revolutionary Reconstruction of State Power - Theda Skocpol A Rejoinder to Sewell Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements - J Craig Jenkins Skocpol on Revolution - Elizabeth Nichols Comparative Analysis versus Historical Conjuncture Analyzing Causal Configurations in History - Theda Skocpol A Rejoinder to Nichols VOLUME FOUR PART EIGHT: CASE STUDY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS, WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES The Collective Bargaining Process - William Foote Whyte and S Garfield Advancing Scientific Knowledge through Participatory Action Research - William Foote Whyte The Extended Case Method - Michael Burawoy Research, Action and Participation - R Walton and M Gaffney The Rise of the Pentagon and U S State Building - Gregory Hooks The Defence Programme as Industrial Policy PART NINE: BIOGRAPHY, LIFE HISTORY AND CASE STUDY METHOD The Life Story - Jeff Todd Titon The Human Studies and Life History - Bertram Cohler The Life Course of Gay and Lesbian Youth - Andrew M Boxer and Bertram Cohler An Immodest Proposal for the Study of Lives Reading Lives - Mary Evans How the Personal Might Be Social The Problem of Other Lives - Michael Erben Social Perspectives on Written Biography Weaving Stories - Pam Cotterill and Gayle Letherby Personal Auto/Biographies in Feminist Research Life Stories and Social Careers - Robin Humphrey Ageing and Social Life in an Ex-Mining Town PART TEN: RE-EVALUATIONS OF THE CASE STUDY METHOD What Can Case Studies Do? - Jennifer Platt Building Theories from Case Study Research - Kathleen M Eisenhardt Evaluating and Rethinking the Case Study - Randy Stoecker The Case Method in Sociology - Introduction - Jacques Hamel New Theoretical and Methodological Issues The Romanticism of Agency/Structure versus the Analysis of Micro/Macro - Randell Collins Einstein, Renoir and Greeley - Stanley Lieberson Evidence in Sociology