Exam 8: Case Study Approaches

Which former U.S. president's decision-making process was used to discuss case studies in your text?

Alex is interested in childhood obesity, he sets up a study in an elementary school to collect data, however, the children and the school are not the focus. What type of case study is this?

A series of burglaries have occurred in your neighborhood. The detectives are evaluating each burglary as a separate case, but then comparing the evidence of these separate cases. What type of case study is this?

Compare and contrast the decision-making process in the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban Missile Crisis and discuss the reason these examples are good case studies to review?

______ is a process of theory formulation characteristic of inductive approaches.

A ______ involves a chosen set of cases where each case is treated as its own individual entity, to be compared or contrasted with one another.

What is another name for collective case study?

Sherlock Holmes is a methodologist according to your text.

A ______ can be a person, an organization, an event, a place, a file, a country, or just about any other entity we can clearly demarcate as a focus of study.

Which famous equation is a subject of David Bodanis book which is a case study on the sociology of knowledge?

Summarize and discuss how to know when a case study is appropriate.

Rochelle is evaluating infant mortality rates in the state of Texas. In this study what is the case?

A ______ is any "bounded system," that is, a focus of study bounded in space and time.

Researchers are encouraged to bring a rigid methodological attitude in respect to case studies.

______ stands for an excessive form of concurrence-seeking among members of high prestige, tightly knit policy-making groups.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three different types of case studies differentiated by Stake?

Case study analysis are not feasible in the real world.

Consider how different professions engage in case study analysis. Discuss two different professions that utilize case studies and discuss the role of case studies in their work, the type of case studies relevant to the work they do, and how the case studies inform the professions.

A case study in which the entire focus is on the one case and nothing else is referred to as a(n) ______.

Identify the key differences between intrinsic case studies, instrumental case studies, and collective case studies.