How to do your case study : a guide for students and researchers / Gary Thomas.
Material type: TextPublication 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.)
- 300.723 THO
- H62
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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.