Qualitative Research: Case Study and Ethnographic Studies

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Case Study Definition

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Organizing social data to view social reality.

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Focus of Case Study

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Examines a social unit as a whole.

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Purpose of Case Study

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Understand life cycle or important parts of it.

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Longitudinal Approach

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Shows development over time.

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Typicalness vs Uniqueness

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Focus on typicalness for scientific abstraction.

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Analytic Generalization

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Generalizes to a theory from similar cases.

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Types of Data in Case Studies

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Documents, archival records, direct observation, participant observation, interviews, physical artifacts.

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Documents

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School records, health records, teachers' notes.

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Archival Records

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Quantitative data from prior studies.

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Direct Observation

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Researcher visits case study site.