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What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

Paperback • 1992 • English

What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

By Charles C. Ragin, Howard Saul Becker

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About the book

The concept of the case is a basic feature of social science research and yet many questions about how a case should be defined, selected, and judged are far from settled. The contributors to this volume probe the nature of the case and the ways in which different understandings of the concept affect the conduct and the results of research. The contributions demonstrate that the work of any given researcher is often characterised by some hybrid of these basic approaches, and it is important to u...Show more

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9780521421881

Published year

1992

Language

English

Original title

What Is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry

Format

Paperback

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