This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (1) Theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (2) One cannot generalize from a single case, therefore the single case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (3) The case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, while other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (4) The case study contains a bias toward verification; and (5) It is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. The article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and that a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of more good case studies.

Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (c) the case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (d) the case study contains a bias toward verification; and (e) it is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. This article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of a greater number of good case studies.

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Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Types of Exchange, Speech Functions, and Grammatical Mood Part 3: Discourses and Representations 7. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Styles 10. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion

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Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research

The Wretched of the Earth

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The Practice Of Everyday Life

The title of the 2001 exhibition ‘The Genius of Rome’, held in London and Rome, is ambiguous. The curatorial meaning is that the simultaneous presence of painters, patrons and other power brokers d...

The Genius of Rome: Putting Things Together

Finnish cinematographer Eija-Liisa Ahtila makes video installations of a particularly griping intensity, staging a contact zone for encounters with otherness. They also deploy other media, such as literature, and other genres, such as documentary, along with other states of being, such as murder, maidenhood, and madness. This multiple otherness, I argue here, is crucial for the understanding of the way this artist uses a medium that is ostensibly visual to make environments that are political through encompassing engagements with otherness as other media.In the reception of her work, this heterogeneity is largely ignored in favour of interpretations of the installations anchored in a single medium – video installation – and a political individualism. This is most clear in the reception of The House, Ahtila’s best-known work. This is consistently interpreted as a representation of schizophrenia. That such negligence of a sophisticated heterogeneity has political consequences becomes obvious once we see tha...

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