Free Psychology Books: Case Study Research Methods by Bill Gillham

Case Study Research Methods by Bill Gillham

What is a case study? Perhaps we should first ask: what is a case? The word 'case' (like 'intelligence' and 'neurosis') is one we all use, and feel we understand, but is rather challenging to define. Here is an attempt:

• a unit of human activity embedded in the real world; 

• which can only be studied or understood in context; 

• which exists in the here and now; . 

• that merges in with its context so that precise boundaries are difficult to draw. 

A case can be an individual: it can be a group - such as a family, or a class, or an office, or a hospital ward; it can be an institution - such as a school or a children's home, or a factory; it can be a large-scale community - a town, an industry, a profession.
All of these are single cases; but you can also study multiple cases: a number of single parents; several schools; two different professions. It all depends what you want to find out - which leads us on. A case study is one which investigates the above to answer specific research questions (that may be fairly loose to~begin with) and which seeks a range of different kinds of evidence, evidence which is there in the case setting, and which has to be abstracted and collated to get the best possible answers......................

 
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