Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts

Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, Peter Foster

SAGE Publications, Dec 19, 2000 - Social Science - 276 pages

This is the most comprehensive guide to the current uses and importance of case study methods in social research. The editors bring together key contributions from the field which reflect different interpretations of the purpose and capacity of case study research. The address issues such as: the problem of generalizing from study of a small number of cases; and the role of case study in developing and testing theories.

The editors offer in-depth assessments of the main arguments. An annotated bibliography of the literature dealing with case study research makes this an exhaustive and indispensable guide.

`This is a worthwhile book which will be useful to readers. It collects

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About the author

Martyn Hammersley is Professor of Educational and Social Research at The Open University. He has carried out research in the sociology of education and the sociology of the media. However, much of his work has been concerned with the methodological issues surrounding social enquiry. He has written several books, including: Reading Ethnographic Research (Longman 1991); What's Wrong with Ethnography? (Routledge 1992); The Politics of Social Research (Sage 1995); Taking Sides in Social Research (Routledge, 1999); Educational Research, Policymaking and Practice (Paul Chapman, 2002), Questioning Qualitative Inquiry (Sage 2008), Methodology, Who Needs It? (Sage, 2011), and What is Qualitative Research? (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2013)

Bibliographic information

• Title: Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts
• Editors: Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, Peter Foster
• Edition: reprint, annotated
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 2000
• ISBN: 0761964142, 9780761964148
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Social Science / Research