Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the nature of the case study / Anthony M. Orum, Joe R. Feagin, and Gideon Sjoberg
  • The case study approach in social research : basic methodological issues / Gideon Sjoberg [and others]
  • Middletown as an urban case study / Howard M. Bahr and Theodore Caplow
  • A tale of two cases / Anthony M. Orum and Joe R. Feagin
  • Researching the homeless : the characteristic features and virtues of the case study / David A. Snow and Leon Anderson
  • Oenology : the making of New wine / R. Stephen Warner
  • The case study method in sociological criminology / Gilbert Geis
  • Case studies and the sociology of gender / Christine L. Williams
  • Case study in family research / Gerald Handel
  • Conclusion : The present crisis in U.S. sociology / Joe R. Feagin, Anthony M. Orum and Gideon Sjoberg.