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- Title
THE THEORY OF CASE STUDIES.
- Authors
Foreman, Paul B.
- Abstract
A case study, basically, is a depiction either of a phase or the totality of relevant experience of some selected datum. When the investigator's attention is focused on development, the account is a case history. When a panoramic view of the present is obtained, case studies may be called cross-sectional or photographic. In either instance the datum may in sociological study be any of the these, taken singly or in combination: a person; a group of persons such as a gang or family; a class of persons such as professors or thieves; an ecological unit such as a neighborhood or community; a cultural unit such as a fashion or institution. As appropriate to these categories, three broad types of case study materials, classified according to the relationship of the observer to the case phenomena, maybe identified. The utility of any research technique rests not only upon demonstration of service to specific type problems or upon sophistication in methodological theory.
- Subjects
SOCIAL groups; CASE studies; COMMUNITY relations; SOCIOLOGISTS; COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH
- Publication
Social Forces, 1948, Vol 26, Issue 4, p408
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2571874