The Case Study Anthology
- Robert K. Yin - COSMOS Corporation
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"This anthology is very useful. It speaks directly to students. The writing is extraordinarily strong throughout the samples—clear and concise, interesting and insightful, authoritative and accessible. This is a book I will order with enthusiasm as required reading in my course on research design."
—Dr. Larissa A. Grunig, Department of Communication, University of Maryland
The Case Study Anthology, the latest from bestselling author Robert Yin, introduces readers to the world of case study research. It contains 19 carefully chosen and well-edited works, some of which represent excerpts from all-time classic case studies in sociology, political science, and related disciplines. This anthology will help readers to understand how case study research has been conducted—including the current state of the art—and how they might conduct their own case studies. With this in mind, the cases are arranged according to the process of doing case study research:
* Theoretical perspectives and case selection
* The strength of multiple cases
* Quantitative evidence and "embedded" units of analysis
* More illustrations of case study evidence
* Analysis and conclusions
Authors of the cases include many eminent social scientists, including
Graham Allison
Anthony S. Bryk
James S. Coleman
Seymour Martin Lipset
Helen Merrell Lynd
Robert S. Lynd
Ira Magaziner
Richard Neustadt
Everett M. Rogers
Martin Trow
W. Lloyd Warner
Aaron Wildavsky
The Case Study Anthology will be a perfect supplemental text or reference for any research course in the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology, and political science, as well as related practice fields such as education, planning, health, and management.
Section II: The Strength of Multiple Cases
“This anthology is very useful. It speaks directly to students. The writing is extraordinarily strong throughout the samples—clear and concise, interesting and insightful, authoritative and accessible. This is a book I will order with enthusiasm as required reading in my course on research design.”
Every case in the Anthology is worth reading.
This book is like an “anthology” overarching subject of case studies. It is a must have or must read book if you are embarking on a research adopting a case study approach. The book will certainly appeal to the students in that it speaks directly to them and in plain English. Additionally, the book has extensive description of what a case study is with examples drawn from various disciplines with easy to follow explanations on cast study techniques such as descriptive, explanatory, cross-case and methodological. It is an interesting and insightful book with authoritative and accessible nature. Everything a research student has to ask on cast studies, is answered in this book!
This book is suited for someone who is interested in examples of case studies. The book does not contain instructions on HOW to do a case study as such, but more on case studies that have already been done.
Not all of my students carry out case study research, so it would be wrong of me to recommend the book as essential. However those that do use case studies will be recommended the book. Thanks
Ian
Another excellent book by Yin - clear, concise and very easy to understand. Comprehensive examples of the approaches are especially useful.
clearly demonstrates how the other works by Yin are used in real world research, with clarity and diverse case studies to bring to life the method of case study research