How to Do Your Case Study

Third Edition
Gary Thomas
How to Do Your Case Study
January 2021 | 320 pages | Sage UK
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This accessible guide takes you through the process of designing, conducting and writing up a research project using case study methods. In his characteristic warm and friendly style, Gary Thomas covers each step at a confidence-building pace, helping you to get to grips with the theory and practice of doing a case study.

Focusing on vital issues like validity, reliability and quality in research, the author helps you ensure your research is rigorous and methodologically sound. This third edition:

·       Offers an expanded discussion of key ethical issues in case study research

·       Provides up to date information about using social media in research

·       Presents a new navigation tool to help you plan your case study project

·       Enables you to develop the skills you need to become a critical and reflexive researcher

Covering international examples of case study in practice and accompanied by downloadable checklists and templates, this book is the perfect companion to help you successfully complete a case study.

Contents

Stage I: Getting Your Bearings

  • Chapter 1: What is a case study?
  • Chapter 2: The case study and research design
  • Chapter 3: The whole is more than the sum of the parts: seeing a complete picture
  • Chapter 4: Rigour and quality in your case study: what’s important?
  • Chapter 5: Ethics

Stage II: Choosing a case and structuring your study

  • Chapter 6: Different kinds of case studies: selecting a subject for your case study
  • Chapter 7: Your purpose: thinking about the object of your study
  • Chapter 8: Your approach: theory testing or theory building; interpretation or illustration
  • Chapter 9: Your process: the shape, style and manner of your case study

Stage III: Collecting evidence, analysing and writing up

  • Chapter 10: Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence
  • Chapter 11: Analysis: a toolkit for analysing and thinking in case study
  • Chapter 12: Writing your study

Description

This accessible guide takes you through the process of designing, conducting and writing up a research project using case study methods. In his characteristic warm and friendly style, Gary Thomas covers each step at a confidence-building pace, helping you to get to grips with the theory and practice of doing a case study.

Focusing on vital issues like validity, reliability and quality in research, the author helps you ensure your research is rigorous and methodologically sound. This third edition:

·       Offers an expanded discussion of key ethical issues in case study research

·       Provides up to date information about using social media in research

·       Presents a new navigation tool to help you plan your case study project

·       Enables you to develop the skills you need to become a critical and reflexive researcher

Covering international examples of case study in practice and accompanied by downloadable checklists and templates, this book is the perfect companion to help you successfully complete a case study.

Contents

Stage I: Getting Your Bearings

  • Chapter 1: What is a case study?
  • Chapter 2: The case study and research design
  • Chapter 3: The whole is more than the sum of the parts: seeing a complete picture
  • Chapter 4: Rigour and quality in your case study: what’s important?
  • Chapter 5: Ethics

Stage II: Choosing a case and structuring your study

  • Chapter 6: Different kinds of case studies: selecting a subject for your case study
  • Chapter 7: Your purpose: thinking about the object of your study
  • Chapter 8: Your approach: theory testing or theory building; interpretation or illustration
  • Chapter 9: Your process: the shape, style and manner of your case study

Stage III: Collecting evidence, analysing and writing up

  • Chapter 10: Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence
  • Chapter 11: Analysis: a toolkit for analysing and thinking in case study
  • Chapter 12: Writing your study
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How to Do Your Case Study

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January 2021 | 320 pages | Sage UK

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This accessible guide takes you through the process of designing, conducting and writing up a research project using case study methods. In his characteristic warm and friendly style, Gary Thomas covers each step at a confidence-building pace, helping you to get to grips with the theory and practice of doing a case study.

Focusing on vital issues like validity, reliability and quality in research, the author helps you ensure your research is rigorous and methodologically sound. This third edition:

·       Offers an expanded discussion of key ethical issues in case study research

·       Provides up to date information about using social media in research

·       Presents a new navigation tool to help you plan your case study project

·       Enables you to develop the skills you need to become a critical and reflexive researcher

Covering international examples of case study in practice and accompanied by downloadable checklists and templates, this book is the perfect companion to help you successfully complete a case study.


Table Of Contents:

  • Stage I: Getting Your Bearings
  • Chapter 1: What is a case study?
  • Chapter 2: The case study and research design
  • Chapter 3: The whole is more than the sum of the parts: seeing a complete picture
  • Chapter 4: Rigour and quality in your case study: what’s important?
  • Chapter 5: Ethics
  • Stage II: Choosing a case and structuring your study
  • Chapter 6: Different kinds of case studies: selecting a subject for your case study
  • Chapter 7: Your purpose: thinking about the object of your study
  • Chapter 8: Your approach: theory testing or theory building; interpretation or illustration
  • Chapter 9: Your process: the shape, style and manner of your case study
  • Stage III: Collecting evidence, analysing and writing up
  • Chapter 10: Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence
  • Chapter 11: Analysis: a toolkit for analysing and thinking in case study
  • Chapter 12: Writing your study

Recent Product Reviews:

The learning features are excellent. I love the highlight boxes and the ‘If you take only one thing...’ feature. It is also good to have further reading at the end of each chapter. Overall, this is an excellent book on case study design.
Shirley Larkin, University of Exeter

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