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Tables of Contents for What Is a Case?
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Contributors
vii
Introduction: Cases of ``What is a Case?''
1
18
Charles C. Ragin
I Critiques of Conventional practices
19
100
Cases of cases ... of cases
21
32
Jennifer Platt
What do cases do? Some notes on activity in sociological analysis
53
30
Andrew Abbott
Cases are for identity, for explanation, or for control
83
22
Harrison C. White
Small N's and big conclusions: an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small number of cases
105
14
Stanley Lieberson
II Analyses of research experiences
119
84
Making the theoretical case
121
18
John Walton
Small N's and community case studies
139
20
Douglas Harper
Case studies: history or sociology?
159
14
Michel Wieviorka
Theory elaboration: the heuristics of case analysis
173
30
Diane Vaughan
III Reflections on ``What is a case?''
203
24
Cases, Causes, conjunctures, Stories, and imagery
205
12
Howard S. Becker
``Casing'' and the process of Social inquiry
217
10
Charles C. Ragin
Notes
227
8
Index
235