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Intrinsic Case Study

Gina Grandy

In: Encyclopedia of Case Study Research

Edited by: Albert J. Mills, Gabrielle Durepos & Elden Wiebe

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412957397.n183

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An intrinsic case study is the study of a case (e.g., person, specific group, occupation, department, organization) where the case itself is of primary interest in the exploration. The exploration is driven by a desire to know more about the uniqueness of the case rather than to build theory or how the case represents other cases.
Conceptualization and Discussion
Robert Stake classifies cases into three categories: (1) intrinsic, (2) instrumental, and (3) collective. The intrinsic case is often exploratory in nature, and the researcher is guided by his or her interest in the case itself rather than in extending theory or generalizing across cases. In an instrumental case study the case is secondary to the exploration of a specific issue, building theory or redrawing generalizations. In an ...

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- Before-and-After Case Study Design
- Abduction
- Activity Theory
- Action-Based Data Collection
- Case Study and Theoretical Science
- Analytic Generalization
- ANTi-History
- Agency
- Case Study Research in Anthropology
- Case Study Research in Business and Management
- Alienation
- Case Studies as a Teaching Tool
- Audience
- Chicago School
- Analysis of Visual Data
- Actor-Network Theory
- Bayesian Inference and Boolean Logic
- Blended Research Design
- Bounding the Case
- Bricoleur
- ANTi-History
- Anonymity and Confidentiality
- Colonialism
- Authenticity
- Case Study in Creativity Research
- Authenticity and Bad Faith
- Case Study Research in Business Ethics
- Case Study Research in Education
- Author Intentionality
- Case Study Research in Tourism
- Concatenated Theory
- Constructivism
- Anonymizing Data for Secondary Use
- Autoethnography
- Caseto-Case Synthesis
- Case Selection
- Caseto-Case Synthesis
- Causal Case Study: Explanatory Theories
- Base and Superstructure
- Archival Records as Evidence
- Critical Realism
- Conceptual Argument
- Case Study With the Elderly
- Case Study and Theoretical Science
- Case Study Research in Feminism
- Case Study Research in Medicine
- Contentious Issues in Case Study Research
- Collective Case Study
- Conceptual Model: Causal Model
- Critical Theory
- Audiovisual Recording
- Case Study as a Methodological Approach
- Chronological Order
- Case Within a Case
- Comparative Case Study
- Coding: Axial Coding
- Character
- Autobiography
- Dialectical Materialism
- Conceptual Model: Operationalization
- Configurative-Ideographic Case Study
- Cultural Sensitivity and Case Study
- Case Study Research in Political Science
- Case Study Research in Psychology
- Dissertation Proposal
- Critical Pedagogy and Digital Technology
- Conceptual Model in a Qualitative Research Project
- Epistemology
- Case Study Database
- Class Analysis
- Coding: Open Coding
- Critical Incident Case Study
- Cross-Sectional Design
- Coding: Selective Coding
- Closure
- Case Study Protocol
- Existentialism
- Conceptual Model in a Quantitative Research Project
- Diagnostic Case Study Research
- Ecological Perspectives
- Case Study Research in Public Policy
- Case Study Research in Tourism
- Ideology
- Explanatory Case Study
- Contribution, Theoretical
- Families
- Case Study Surveys
- Codifying Social Practices
- Cognitive Biases
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Deductive–Nomological Model of Explanation
- Cognitive Mapping
- Communicative Action
- Consent, Obtaining Participant
- Formative Context
- Credibility
- Exploratory Case Study
- Masculinity and Femininity
- Case Study With the Elderly
- Ecological Perspectives
- Objectivism
- Inductivism
- Docile Bodies
- Frame Analysis
- Contextualization
- Community of Practice
- Communicative Framing Analysis
- Deviant Case Analysis
- Discursive Frame
- Complexity
- Comparing the Case Study With Other Methodologies
- Critical Pedagogy and Digital Technology
- Historical Materialism
- Equifinality
- Institutional Ethnography
- Othering
- Healthcare Practice Guidelines
- Pedagogy and Case Study
- Patriarchy
- Instrumental Case Study
- Experience
- Interpretivism
- Cultural Sensitivity and Case Study
- Consciousness Raising
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: ATLAS.ti
- Dissertation Proposal
- Ethics
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: CAITA (ComputerAssisted Interpretive Textual Analysis)
- Contradiction
- Data Resources
- Liberal Feminism
- Explanation Building
- Intercultural Performance
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Power
- Intrinsic Case Study
- Extension of Theory
- Managerialism
- Depth of Data
- Critical Discourse Analysis
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: Kwalitan
- Event-Driven Research
- Exemplary Case Design
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: MAXQDA 2007
- Critical Sensemaking
- Diaries and Journals
- Modernity
- Falsification
- Limited-Depth Case Study
- Power/Knowledge
- Pragmatism
- Multimedia Case Studies
- Functionalism
- North American Case Research Association
- Direct Observation as Evidence
- Dasein
- Computer-Based Analysis of Qualitative Data: NVIVO
- Extended Case Method
- Extreme Cases
- Concept Mapping
- Decentering Texts
- Discourse Analysis
- Ontology
- Generalizability
- Participatory Action Research
- Researcher as Research Tool
- Terroir
- Participatory Case Study
- Genericization
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Documentation as Evidence
- Deconstruction
- Congruence Analysis
- Healthcare Practice Guidelines
- Holistic Designs
- Constant Causal Effects Assumption
- Dialogic Inquiry
- Ethnostatistics
- Philosophy of Science
- Indeterminacy
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Utilitarianism
- Verstehen
- Pracademics
- Indexicality
- Pluralism and Case Study
- Fiction Analysis
- Discourse Ethics
- Content Analysis
- Hypothesis
- Integrating Independent Case Studies
- Conversation Analysis
- Double Hermeneutic
- Field Notes
- Postcolonialism
- Instrumental Case Study
- Processual Case Research
- Program Evaluation and Case Study
- Macrolevel Social Mechanisms
- Postmodernism
- Field Work
- Dramaturgy
- Cross-Case Synthesis and Analysis
- Juncture
- Longitudinal Research
- Decision Making Under Uncertainty
- Ethnographic Memoir
- Going Native
- Postpositivism
- Middle-Range Theory
- Program-Logic Models
- Prospective Case Study
- Naturalistic Generalization
- Poststructuralism
- Informant Bias
- Ethnography
- Document Analysis
- Mental Framework
- Mixed Methods in Case Study Research
- Factor Analysis
- Ethnomethodology
- Institutional Ethnography
- Poststructuralist Feminism
- Overdetermination
- RealTime Cases
- Retrospective Case Study
- Plausibility
- Radical Empiricism
- Interviews
- Eurocentricism
- Fiction Analysis
- Most Different Systems Design
- Multimedia Case Studies
- High-Quality Analysis
- Families
- Iterative Nodes
- Radical Feminism
- Probabilistic Explanation
- ReUse of Qualitative Data
- Single-Case Designs
- Process Tracing
- Reality
- Language and Cultural Barriers
- Formative Context
- Inductivism
- Multiple-Case Designs
- MultiSite Case Study
- Interactive Methodology, Feminist
- Frame Analysis
- Multiple Sources of Evidence
- Scientific Method
- Program Evaluation and Case Study
- Spiral Case Study
- Storyselling
- Reporting Case Study Research
- Scientific Realism
- Narrative Analysis
- Front Stage and Back Stage
- Interpreting Results
- Naturalistic Inquiry
- Natural Science Model
- Iterative
- Gendering
- Narratives
- Socialist Feminism
- Rhetoric in Research Reporting
- Statistical Generalization
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Naturalistic Context
- Genealogy
- Iterative Nodes
- Number of Cases
- Outcome-Driven Research
- Knowledge Production
- Governmentality
- Nonparticipant Observation
- Substantive Theory
- Theory-Building With Cases
- Objectivity
- Grounded Theory
- Method of Agreement
- Paradigmatic Cases
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Method of Difference
- Hermeneutics
- Over-Rapport
- Theory-Testing With Cases
- Underdetermination
- Participant Observation
- Hybridity
- Multicollinearity
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Multidimensional Scaling
- Imperialism
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Case Study
- Institutional Theory, New and Old
- Over-Rapport
- Polar Types
- Problem Formulation
- Pattern Matching
- Intertextuality
- Personality Tests
- Problem Formulation
- Isomorphism
- ReAnalysis of Previous Data
- Quantitative Single-Case Research Design
- Quasiexperimental Design
- Regulating Group Mind
- Langue and Parôle
- Questionnaires
- Reflexivity
- Layered Nature of Texts
- Relational Analysis
- Quick Start to Case Study Research
- Random Assignment
- Replication
- Life History
- Regulating Group Mind
- Reliability
- Logocentrism
- ReUse of Qualitative Data
- Research Framework
- Research Objectives
- Rival Explanations
- Management of Impressions
- Repeated Observations
- Researcher–Participant Relationship
- Means of Production
- Secondary Data as Primary
- Research Proposals
- Research Questions, Types of
- Serendipity Pattern
- Metaphor
- ReUse of Qualitative Data
- Sensitizing Concepts
- Modes of Production
- Situational Analysis
- Rhetoric in Research Reporting
- Sampling
- Standpoint Analysis
- Multimethod Research Program
- Subjectivism
- Subject Rights
- Multiple Selfing
- Statistical Analysis
- Socially Distributed Knowledge
- Spiral Case Study
- Storyselling
- Native Points of View
- Theoretical Saturation
- Triangulation
- Negotiated Order
- Temporal Bracketing
- Statistics, Use of in Case Study
- Storyselling
- Textual Analysis
- Network Analysis
- Use of Digital Data
- Utilization
- One-Dimensional Culture
- Thematic Analysis
- Temporal Bracketing
- Thematic Analysis
- Use of Digital Data
- Ordinary Troubles
- Visual Research Methods
- Organizational Culture
- Utilization
- Theory, Role of
- Theory-Testing With Cases
- Webs of Significance
- Paradigm Plurality in Case Study Research
- Performativity
- Within-Case Analysis
- Utilization
- Validity
- Phenomenology
- Practice-Oriented Research
- Praxis
- Primitivism
- Qualitative Analysis in Case Studies
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Quantitative Single-Case Research Design
- Quick Start to Case Study Research
- Self-Confrontation Method
- Self-Presentation
- Sensemaking
- Sexuality
- Signifier and Signified
- Sign System
- Simulacrum
- Social-Interaction Theory
- Storytelling
- Structuration
- Symbolic Value
- Symbolic Violence
- Thick Description
- Writing and Difference
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