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Andrews, Paul – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2017
This paper discusses the 'telling case' and the manner and extent of its use in social research. The 'telling case,' proposed by Mitchell as a counter to prevailing expectations of typicality, is an ethnographic case study, derived from analytic induction and focused on the exposure of new theoretical insights. By means of an evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Case Studies, Ethnography, Logical Thinking