Exemplification and the use-values of cases and case studies |
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Authors: | Mary S. Morgan |
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Affiliation: | Department of Economic History, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK |
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Abstract: | This paper provides an account of the ‘use-value’ of case-based research by showing how social scientists exploit cases, and case studies, in a variety of practices of inference and extension. The critical basis for making such extensions relies on the power of a case, or the account given of a case (the case-study account), to exemplify certain features of the social world in ways which prove valuable for further analysis: either of the same case, or in many domains beyond the original case study. Framing use-values in terms of exemplification compares favourably with understanding reasoning beyond the case either as a form of analogical reasoning or in taking cases as experimentable objects. |
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Keywords: | Cases Case studies Use-values Exemplification Inference practices |
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