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Sampling and Choosing Cases in Qualitative Research
A Realist Approach

October 2013 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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All qualitative researchers sample, yet methods of sampling and choosing cases have received relatively little attention compared to other qualitative methods.

This innovative book critically evaluates widely used sampling strategies, identifying key theoretical assumptions and considering how empirical and theoretical claims are made from these diverse methods.

Nick Emmel presents a groundbreaking reworking of sampling and choosing cases in qualitative research. Drawing on international case studies from across the social sciences he shows how ideas drive choices, how cases are used to work out the relation between ideas and evidence, and why it is not the size of a sample that matters, it is how cases are used to interpret and explain that counts.

Fresh, dynamic and timely, this book is essential reading for researchers and postgraduate students engaging with sampling and realism in qualitative research.

 
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

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Chapter One: Theoretical Sampling

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