Case Method

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Further Reading

Anderson, E. 2001. Urban Ethnography. In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, eds. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Anderson, N., and Council of Social Agencies of Chicago. [1923] 1967. The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Becker, H. S. 1967. Whose Side Are We On? Social Problems 14 (3): 239-247.

Becker, H. S. 1992. Cases, Causes, Conjunctures, Stories, and Imagery. In What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry, eds. Charles C. Ragin, Howard S. Becker, and Gideon Sjoberg, 205-215. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Burawoy, Michael. 1998. The Extended Case Method. Sociological Theory 16 (1): 4-33.

Emerson, Robert. 2004. Introduction. In Being Here and Being There: Fieldwork Encounters and Ethnographic Discoveries, Vol. 595 of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series, eds. Elijah Anderson, Scott Brooks, Raymond Gunn, and Nikki Jones. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Feagin, J. R., A. M. Orum, and G. Sjorberg, eds. 1991. A Case for the Case Study. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Newman, Katherine S. 1999. No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner-City. New York: Knopf and the Russell Sage Foundation.

More Further Reading

Ragin, Charles C. 1997. Turning the Tables: How Case-Oriented Research Challenges Variable-Oriented Research. Comparative Social Research 16: 27-42.

Ragin, Charles C., Howard. S. Becker, and Gideon Sjoberg, eds. 1992. What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Thrasher, F. M. 1927. The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Whyte, W. F. 1943. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Wirth, L. 1928. The Ghetto. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Zorbaugh, H. W. [1929] 1976. The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago’s Near North Side. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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