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The Extended Case Method Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition
- by Michael Burawoy (Author)
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In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century—the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy's odyssey began in 1968 in the Zambian copper mines and proceeded to Chicago's South Side, where he worked as a machine operator and enjoyed a unique perspective on the stability of advanced capitalism. In the 1980s, this perspective was deepened by contrast with his work in diverse Hungarian factories. Surprised by the collapse of socialism in Hungary in 1989, he journeyed in 1991 to the Soviet Union, which by the end of the year had unexpectedly dissolved. He then spent the next decade studying how the working class survived the catastrophic collapse of the Soviet economy. These essays, presented with a perspective that has benefited from time and rich experience, offer ethnographers a theory and a method for developing novel understandings of epochal change.
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Michael Burawoy teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of a number of books, including Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Process under Monopoly Capitalism, and coauthor of Global Ethnography and Ethnography Unbound (both UC Press).
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List of Tables Prologue: Bringing Theory to the Field Introduction: From Manchester to Berkeley by Way of Chicago 1. The Extended Case Method: Race and Class in Postcolonial Africa 2. The Ethnographic Revisit: Capitalism in Transition and Other Histories 3. Two Methods in Search of Revolution: Trotsky versus Skocpol 4. Multicase Ethnography: Tracking the Demise of State Socialism Conclusion: The Ethnography of Great Transformations Epilogue: On Public Ethnography Notes References
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of the extended case method, I hope to improve its execution, justify it as a science, albeit a reflexive science, and draw out broader implications for the way we study the world. In order to illustrate and explicate the extended case method I return to a study con-ducted between 1968 and 1972 in the then newly independent African country of ...
The extended case method emulates a reflexive model of science that takes as its premise the intersubjectivity of scientist and subject of study. Reflexive science valorizes intervention, process, structuration, and theory reconstruction. It is the Siamese twin of positive science that proscribes reactivity, but upholds reliability ...
Review, The Extended Case Method 2 Practical Matters Despite the book's ambitious scope, Burawoy's central concern in this volume is the craft of ethnography: what it is, why we need it, how to do it, and how we ought to think about it. He de-fines ethnography broadly as a method of social research committed to "studying others in their
The extended case method emphasizes the use of a theory and focuses on discovering how underlying structures at the micro level are affected by broader social forces. This makes it a useful approach to examine how macro level theories affect vulnerable, marginalized persons, which makes it particularly useful to the discipline of nursing.
the extended case method. What needs reconstructing is the extended case method's implicit theory of the relation between culture and structure. To begin this reconstruction, we outline three different ways that cultural research con-ceives of connections between culture and structure. First, culture and social structure interpenetrate.
The extended case method emulates a reflexive model of science that takes as its premise the intersubjectivity of scientist and subject of study. Reflexive science valorizes intervention, process, structuration, and theory reconstruction. It is the Siamese twin of positive science that proscribes reactivity, but upholds reliability ...
Extended case study method to trace the conflicting responses to best practice via emergent multi-site abductive theorizing. Empty Cell: Stage 3: Deductive analysis of the three types of translation: Context is theorized to improve the theory-based conditions that influence actor-level processes in ways that evolve. 3. Reviewing analytical ...
The role of context in case study selection: An international business perspective. International Business Review (2013) A.P.J. Schotter et al. ... However, as an ethnographic method, the extended case method has not been much used in IB (Nguyen & Tull, 2022), perhaps because methodological innovations developed in one disciplinary field are ...
The Extended Case Method (2009). These research experiences underpin Burawoy's commitment to scholarly engagement with a wider world outside the confines of the university, to his rejection of what the French sociologist and activist Pierre Bourdieu calls 'scholastic enclosure' or a remote and detached academic elitism.
The Extended Case Method Four Countries, Four Decades, Four Great Transformations, and One Theoretical Tradition. The Extended Case Method. by Michael Burawoy (Author) May 2009. First Edition. Paperback. $34.95, £30.00 eBook. $34.95, £30.00. Title Details.
University of California, Los Angeles, USA. ABSTRACT« Sociological ethnography largely draws upon two epistemologically competing perspectives - grounded theory and the extended case method - with a different conceptualization of sociological case-construction and theory. We argue that the sociological case in the extended case method is ...
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century—the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia. Burawoy's odyssey began in 1968 ...
The study of Norwegian teacher training is founded on an extended case study approach (Burawoy, 2009), employing a combination of document analysis, focus groups, interviews and questionnaires ...
The extended-case method was integral to the conceptual ferment for which the Manchester School is renowned. Concepts such as networks, situations, social dramas and social fields came to augment the work of the extended-case method in introducing anthropology to new possibilities in what it could and should study.
The extended case method emulates a reflexive model of science that takes as its premise the intersubjectivity of scientist and subject of study. Reflexive science valorizes intervention, process ...
Emerging from a sociological perspective regarding epistemology and how we know phenomena, the extended case study method (ECSM) offers researchers an inductive process to modify a theory. Researchers can augment or generate new theories through an iterative process through narratives, specific documents, and digital resources.
The extended case method emulates a reflexive model of science that takes as its premise the intersubjectivin' of scientist and subject of study. Reflexive science valorizes intervention, process, structuration, and theory reconstruction. ... Throughout I use a study of postcolonialism to illustrate both the virtues and the shortcomings of the ...
In order to illustrate and explicate the extended case method, I return to a study conducted between 1968 and 1972 in the then-newly independent African country of Zambia. Of all my stud-ies I have chosen this one because it most effectively illustrates. 24. both the virtues and the limits of the extended case method.
SECTION I: THEORIZING EXTENDED CASES Preface Theorizing the Extended-Case Study Method T. M. S. Evens and Don Handelman The essays composing this section vary in their purport and approach, but nonetheless address in common a number of questions that cut across at least any two of the essays, thus exhibiting what Wittgenstein spoke of as family
In this remarkable collection of essays, Michael Burawoy develops the extended case method by connecting his own experiences among workers of the world to the great transformations of the twentieth century―the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and its satellites, the reconstruction of U.S. capitalism, and the African transition to post-colonialism in Zambia.
The extended case method was initially developed by anthropologists Max Gluckman (1911 - 1975) and Jaap van Velsen (1921 - 1990) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was designed to confront the decontextualized abstractions of structural approaches with richly detailed accounts of the actions and choices of real individuals.
Historicizing the Extended-Case Method T. M. S. Evens ana Don Handelman In 1949, Gluckman was appointed to the new Chair of Social Anthropology ... Mills mentions that the case-study method "was as much about an approach to writing as an approach to research itself." The point is worth emphasizing.
A case study is a detailed study of a specific subject, such as a person, group, place, event, organization, or phenomenon. Case studies are commonly used in social, educational, clinical, and business research. A case study research design usually involves qualitative methods, but quantitative methods are sometimes also used.
Wave definitions for the current expanded case study-mixed methods Study of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta, Canada based on case count data. Note. The Y-axis represents case counts and the X-axis the date. Case count data from the Government of Alberta via its interactive COVID-19 data app (Government of Alberta, 2021).
Bečvarovská and Matějka conducted a comparative analysis of traditional quantity take off and BIM-based quantity take-off methods, utilising a case study. The study showed that employing a BIM-based approach significantly reduces both the amount of time required and the occurrence of inaccuracies, in comparison to the conventional method.