Understanding Case Study Method: A quote on and ABCs of the method

 Understanding Case Study Method: A quote on and ABCs of the method

Excerpted quote

"A case study is expected to capture the complexity of a single case, and the methodology which enables this has developed within the social sciences...The case study should have a 'case' which is the object of study. The 'case' should be a complex functioning unit, be investigated in its natural context with a multitude of methods, and be contemporary...One major feature of case study methodology is that different methods are combined with the purpose of illuminating a case from different angles: to triangulate by combining methodologies...Case studies combine the other research strategies. In that respect the case study could be said to be a meta-method...A case study and, normally, history focus on one case, but simultaneously take account of the context, and so encompass many variables and qualities," said Rolf Johansson [1] of the Royal Institute of Technology in his key note speech at the at International Conference “Methodologies in Housing Research” organised by the Royal Institute of Technology in cooperation with the International Association of People–Environment Studies, Stockholm, 22–24, September 2003

Inspired pattern poem as summary: ABCs of Case Study

A: A for Abduction and Adaptation, wherein abductive approach is identification of the best case among the cases and adaptive approach is movements from facts abouts the case to theory construction

B: Basing the study by combining both inductive and deductive approaches, qualitative and quantitative approaches by treating the case as a complex functioning unit

C: Conceptualization of the case is based on the principle of triangulation to ensure intrinsic validity of the case study, and triangulation is done for data collection methods (both qualitative and qualitative), data sources and secondary analysis, analytical approaches (deductive, inductive, explicative, reductive) or investigators

[1] Johansson, Holf (2003). Case Study Methodology, Case_Study_Methodology-_Rolf_Johansson_ver_2-libre.pdf

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