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How to do your case study : a guide for students and researchers / Gary Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : Sage, 2011.Description: xi, 231 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780857025630 (pbk.) :
  • 9780857025623 (hbk.) :
  • 9780857025630 (Paper)
  • 0857025635 (Paper)
  • 9780857025623 (hbk.)
  • 0857025627 (hbk.)
  • 9780857025630 (pbk.)
  • 0857025635 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.723 THO
LOC classification:
  • H62
Contents:
Part 1.Getting your bearings -- 1.What is a case study? -- 2.Case study and research design -- 3.Models of the whole -- 4.Ensuring quality in your case study: what\'s important? -- Part 2.Getting down to doing it -- 5.Kinds of case studies: finding your case -- 6.Your purpose -- 7.Your approach -- 8.Your process -- Part 3.Getting on with it and finishing -- 9.Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence -- 10.A toolkit for analysing and thinking -- 11.Writing your study -- 12.The fancy stuff: generalisation, induction, abducition, phronesis and theory.
Summary: In this accessible 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.
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Short Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 300.723 THO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 215367

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1.Getting your bearings -- 1.What is a case study? -- 2.Case study and research design -- 3.Models of the whole -- 4.Ensuring quality in your case study: what\'s important? -- Part 2.Getting down to doing it -- 5.Kinds of case studies: finding your case -- 6.Your purpose -- 7.Your approach -- 8.Your process -- Part 3.Getting on with it and finishing -- 9.Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence -- 10.A toolkit for analysing and thinking -- 11.Writing your study -- 12.The fancy stuff: generalisation, induction, abducition, phronesis and theory.

In this accessible 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.

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