What is a case?: exploring the foundations of social inquiry

Introduction : cases of "what is a case? " / Charles C. Ragin

Cases of cases ... of cases / Jennifer Platt

What do cases do? : some notes on activity in sociological analysis / Andrew Abbott

Cases are for identity, for explanation, or for control / Harrison C. White

Small N's and big conclusions : an examination of the reasoning in comparative studies based on a small number of cases / Stanley Lieberson

Making the theoretical case / John Walton

Small N's and community case studies / Douglas Harper

Case studies : history or sociology? / Michel Wieviorka

Theory elaboration : the heuristics of case analysis / Diane Vaughan

Cases, causes, conjunctures, stories, and imagery / Howard S. Becker

"Casing" and the process of social inquiry / Charles C. Ragin.