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

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"Door zuiverheid gedreven": het troebele water van Het land van herkomst van E. du Perron

Madness is an island. Like geographical islands, it isolates. Mad people have been, and still are frequently locked up in asylums. As Foucault had told us, these are often converted leprosy colonies, which were outside the cities in order to avoid contagion. Similarly but unreflectively, the isolating gesture towards the mad comes out of fear of contamination. Thus, the rupturing of social bonds that caused the madness in the first place is reiterated. This is our vision of madness. To turn this vision into a film, we have filmed on an island, Seili, off the coast of Turku, Finland. Seili is part of an archipelago of some thousand islands. Founded in 1619 as a Leper Colony, the last leper died there in 1785. It continued to serve as a hospital for the mentally ill until 1962. On this history-heavy island, we set a number of scenes to use in our film A Long History of Madness (Cinema Suitcase 2011). This is a textual-visual essay, consisting of photographs and video stills that demonstrate the isolating qu...

Mieke Bal

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"Door zuiverheid gedreven": het troebele water van Het land van herkomst van E. du Perron

An island of madness: the social force of mental fortresses – a visual essay

Grounds of Comparison

Interdisciplinary approaches to narrative