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• About the author
• Preface
• Online resources
• A roadmap for conducting a case study, using this book
• Stage 1 Getting Your Bearings
• 1 What is a case study?
• Is the case study scientific?
• Some definitions
• What is a case?
• The subject and object of a case study
• Forms of case study…and six steps to follow in devising your own
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 2 The case study and research design
• First things first: your purpose
• Next, your question
• Literature review
• Using the literature and a storyboard to help you design your case study
• This case study in the typology
• How to go from idea to question to case study
• Questions and different approaches to research
• Design frames and methods
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 3 The whole is more than the sum of the parts: seeing a complete picture
• Break things down or see them as wholes?
• Gestalt psychology
• Dramas, theatres and stages
• Ecological psychology
• Systems thinking
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 4 Rigour and quality in your case study: what is important?
• Is the ‘sample’ important in case study?
• Do I have to worry about reliability and validity in a case study?
• Triangulation
• Positionality
• Generalisation
• Theory
• Finding or regularising
• Quality
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 5 Ethics
• Your participants
• Vulnerable groups
• Participants’ activity
• Deception or concealment
• Confidentiality and anonymity
• Data security and stewardship
• Consent
• Risk
• Contacting participants
• Ethics and social media
• Care for your participants – and yourself
• Where do I put discussion about ethics in my case study write-up?
• Getting clearance – ethical review
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• Stage 2 Choosing A Case and Structuring Your Study
• 6 Different kinds of case studies: selecting a subject fory our case study
• How do you select your case study subject?
• Same starting points, different paths – there is no single right way
• The typology in practice
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 7 Your purpose: thinking about the object of your study
• Intrinsic
• Instrumental
• Evaluative
• Explanatory
• Exploratory
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 8 Your approach: theory testing or theory building; interpretation or illustration
• Theory testing or theory building
• Building a theory
• Testing a theory
• Drawing a picture – illustrative–demonstrative
• Interpretative
• Experimental
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 9 Your process: the shape, style and manner of your case study
• The single case
• Time as a dimension of the case study
• The multiple or collective or comparative case (or cross-case analysis)
• Nested case studies
• Parallel and sequential studies
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• Stage 3 Collecting Evidence, Analysing and Writing It Up
• 10 Out in the field: some ways to collect data and evidence
• Interviews
• Accounts
• Diaries
• Group interviews and focus groups
• Interrogating documents
• Questionnaires
• Observation
• Image-based methods
• Measurements and tests
• Official statistics and other numerical data
• Using social media
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 11 Analysis: a toolkit for analysing and thinking in case study
• Interpretative inquiry: eliciting themes
• Sociograms
• Systems thinking
• Drawing storyboards – the nuts and bolts
• Developing your theory
• Using narrative
• Think drama
• Being intuitive and imaginative
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• 12 Writing your study
• Structure
• Writing up your case study
• Two examples of good analysis, argument and writing
• Some rules for writers
• Remember you have an audience
• If you take only one thing from this chapter, take this …
• … and this – a final thought
• Reflective activity
• Further reading
• Other reading
• References
• Index