Case Study - process consisting of a sequence of teaching, methodological and technical-organizational actions that connects a common goal - to provide accurate data on the phenomenon, which can be used in the future for practical purposes.
sociological study consists of three phases.This development of the program and the choice of methods of investigation;conducting empirical research;data processing, analysis, draw conclusions, report writing.
Applied sociological research is usually empirical.It focuses on the practical solution of problems of society, it is often limited to search for ways to solve specific problems in specific conditions and in specific social object.In the course of this study previously received theoretical knowledge is used as a finished product in the analysis of the collected data, the interpretation of concepts, programming, scientific research report, etc.The main role is played quite specifically formed business recommendations, and not a theory.
specific case study understood as the systematic use of scientific methods to the study of a particular fragment of reality, concerning the life of society.Such a study is carried out at all levels of social science.
At a basic level of sociology such studies are called specific.They are clear practical orientation.This may well be subject to the objectives and the scientific study of society.
There are three types of case studies in sociology: Intelligence, descriptive and analytical.
first type, Intelligence - this study the most basic level, which allows us to solve a rather narrow range of tasks.During this type of research is tested tools (documents): questionnaires, forms, cards, etc.As a rule, they examined a group of persons, not more than a hundred people.This case study is usually preceded by a more serious study of the problem.In the course of its refined hypotheses, goals, issues and challenges.
Descriptive - the study of more complex levels of analysis.In this way, study the empirical information that can give a more holistic view on the investigated phenomena of social life.The subject of analysis stands a large group of individuals of society (for example, a large labor collective).
This study used a variety of ways of gathering information, which greatly increases their accuracy and completeness, allowing you to make more profound conclusions.
Analytical - a case study of the highest level and serious.It does not just describe the phenomena, but also clarifies the causes that underlie them.In the course of this study examines the totality of the factors that justify a certain social phenomenon.In most cases, studies of this nature are completing reconnaissance and descriptive steps.
There are still a separate group, and this kind of research as re-comparative.It is conducted in order to determine the dynamics inherent in the flow of social processes.
particular kind of research - a monitoring.It should be comprehensive, systematic and periodic.So is collected and systematized information.
The results obtained after the study, recorded in a special report.The structure of the report follows the logic of the main stages of the study.Number of sections of the report is usually equal to the number of hypotheses that were specified in the program of study.The first report is given on the main hypothesis.
