Sampling and Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research - A Realist Approach

Helping students to become familiar with various sampling techniques and how to make empirical and theoretical claims from the cases they choose, this text introduces widely used sampling methodologies and identifies key theoretical assumptions

List of contents

Introduction From Sampling to Choosing Cases
PART ONE: THE CASES
Theoretical Sampling
Purposeful Sampling
Theoretical or Purposive Sampling
PART TWO: CHOOSING CASES
The Basics of Realist Sampling
Purposive Work in a Realist Sampling Strategy
Purposefully Choosing Cases
Interpretation and Explanation
Sample Size
Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research

About the author

Nick Emmel teaches research methods and the sociology and social policy of international health and health care at the School of Sociology and Social Policy, the University of Leeds. He has conducted extensive research in the UK and India interpreting and explaining processes of vulnerability, with a focus on inequalities and inequities in health.

Summary

Helping students to become familiar with various sampling techniques and how to make empirical and theoretical claims from the cases they choose, this text introduces widely used sampling methodologies and identifies key theoretical assumptions

Product details

• Authors: Nick Emmel, Emmel Nick
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2013
• EAN: 9780857025104
• ISBN: 978-0-85702-510-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); REFERENCE / Research, Research methods: general, Research methods / methodology