Case-study concept in social sciences and French traditions of labor organization monographic studies

Case-study concept in social sciences and French traditions of labor organization monographic studies


Kozina I.М.

Сand. Sci. (Soc.), Prof., National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. ikozina@hse.ru

Serezhkina Е.V.

Сand. Sci. (Soc.), Senior Lecturer, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. katerinaserezhkina@gmail.com

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Rubric: Мethodology and methods of sociological studies

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Kozina I.М., Serezhkina Е.V. Case-study concept in social sciences and French traditions of labor organization monographic studies. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2015. No 1. P. 64-73


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Abstract

Making and development of case-study concept are discussed in context of methodological discussion among sociologists about limitations and explanatory scope of the method. Varieties of theoretical and methodological approaches are demonstrated using a series of comparative monographic studies in labor organizations in France.

 


Keywords
case-study; monographic study; French sociology; labor organizations
Content No 1, 2015