The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods

✍ Scribed by David Byrne and Charles C. Ragin

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 561
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction - Case-Based Methods: Why We Need Them; What They Are; How to Do Them
PART ONE - The Methodological Context of Case-Based Methods
1 Complexity and Case
2 The Contextualist Approach to Social Science Methodology
3 Reflexivity, Realism and the Process of Casing
4 Single-Case Probabilities
5 Complex Realist and Configurational Approaches to Cases: A Radical Synthesis
PART TWO - Methods and Techniques of Case-Based Research
Typologies – Ways of Sorting Things Out
6 Explanatory Typologies in Qualitative Analysis
7 Introducing Cluster Analysis:What Can It Teach Us about the Case?
8 Visualising Types: The Potential of Correspondence Analysis
9 How Classification Works,or Doesn’t: The Case of Chronic Pain
10 Case-Centred Methods and Quantitative Analysis
11 The Logic and Assumptions of MDSO–MSDO Designs
12 The Case for Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA): Adding Leverage for Thick Cross-Case Comparison
13 On the Duality of Cases and Variables: Correspondence Analysis (CA) and Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
14 Using Cluster Analysis, Qualitative Comparative Analysis and NVivo in Relation to the Establishment of Causal Configurations with Pre-existing Large-N Datasets: Machining Hermeneutics
Qualitative Approaches to Case-Based Research
15 Computer-Based Qualitative Methods in Case Study Research
16 Extending the Ethnographic Case Study
17 Scope in Case Study Research
18 Small-N Access Cases to Refine Theories of Social Exclusion and Access to Socially Excluded Individuals and Groups
19 Using Comparative Data:A Systems Approach to a Multiple Case Study
PART THREE - Case-Based Methods in Disciplines and Fields
20 Making the Most ofan Historical Case Study: Configuration, Sequence, Casing, and the US Old-age Pension Movement
21Poetry and History: The Case for Literary Evidence
22 Cultural Case Studies
23 Social Interactions and the Demand for Sport: Cluster Analysis in Economics
24 The Proper Relationship of Comparative-Historical Analysis to Statistical Analysis:Subordination, Integration, or Separation?
25 Case Studies and the Configurational Analysis of Organizational Phenomena
26 The Case in Medicine
27 Team-Based Aggregation of Qualitative Case Study Data in Health Care Contexts: Challenges and Learning
28 Working with Cases in Development Contexts: Some Insights from an Outlier
29 Non-nested and Nested Cases in a Socioeconomic Village Study
30 Causality and Interpretation in Qualitative Policy-Related Research
31 Reflections on Casing and Case-Oriented Research
Author Index
Subject Index

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