SOC 7141 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Instrumental Case, Nonprobability Sampling

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 7141
• Professor: Kathleen Rodgers

Document Summary

It can be at a concrete level such as a person or small organizational group or less contextual where it is a decision process or specific project. The investigator explores a real life case through various sources of information and reports a case description through case themes. It is familiar to the social sciences due to its popularity in law, psychology and political science: some trace its origin through anthropology. Today, the one writing the case study has a various choice of approaches with many advocating for the general approach especially within the field of education. It begins with identifying a specific case that with be described and analyzed. Instrumental the researcher focuses on an issue/concern and then selects the bounded case to illustrate it. Some say it demonstrates replication where they replicate the procedure for each of their cases. Some are reluctant to do this due to the contexts of each case can be different.