Morgan, Mary S. ORCID: 0000-0003-3471-2180
(2019)
Exemplification and the use-values of cases and case studies.
Studies in history and philosophy of science, 78.
pp. 5-13.
ISSN 0039-3681
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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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://www.journals.elsevier.com/studies-in-histo... |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author |
| Divisions: | Economic History |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Apr 2020 23:12 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 02:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/104057 |
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