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This sharp, stimulating title provides a structure for thinking about, analysing and designing case study. It explores the historical, theoretical and practical bones of modern case study research, offering to social scientists a framework for understanding and working with this form of inquiry. Using detailed analysis of examples taken from across the social sciences Thomas and Myers set out, and then work through, an intricate typology of case study design to answer questions such as: • How is a case study constructed? • What are the required, inherent components of case study? • Can a coherent structure be applied to this form of inquiry? The book grounds complex theoretical insights in real world research and includes an extended example that has been annotated line by line to take the reader through each step of understanding and conducting research using case study.
Conclusion: drawing from the anatomy and constructing the study
Conclusion: drawing from the anatomy and constructing the study
We have stressed in this book so far various elements in the anatomy of the case study as a form of inquiry: the need for an analytical frame as well as a subject; theorization; generalization; and a range of other issues. It is time now to put all of this together. How might a case study be designed and constructed, knowing what we do about this inquiry form’s anatomy?
The construction of the study: Phase 1 – locating a subject and an object
As we have noted throughout the book, an understanding of the separation of subject and object is crucial for the would-be case inquirer in education. A case study, as a study (as distinct from ...
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