What is a case study?

Case study is also called case investigation. The study of a specific person, unit, phenomenon or subject. This kind of research collects relevant data extensively, and makes a detailed understanding, arrangement and analysis of the process of the emergence and development of the research object, internal and external factors and their relations, thus forming a thorough and comprehensive understanding and conclusion on related issues.

The unit of case study can be an individual, a group, an organization, an event or a certain kind of problem, which leads to cases of personnel research, cases of living units or social groups, cases of media and cases of various social problems.

Application of Extended Data Case Study

1, legal research

Take individuals, families, organizations and other social units as cases, deeply understand their phenomena, characteristics and processes, and put forward research methods for solutions. Case study was originally a legal research method.

In legal research, a case is an event or a group of events containing legal acts, and researchers can understand the legal principle and practice of the case from this kind of research. ?

2. Sociology

In sociological research, case studies are mainly conducted by participatory observation and interviews, supplemented by the use and research of written materials. Case study method is widely used in social science, allowing a comprehensive investigation and thorough analysis of a situation. The methods of data collection can be varied and can focus on variables that are difficult to quantify.

Because there are many difficulties in induction, sometimes it may be necessary to conduct a large-scale investigation and study after the case study.

3. Psychology

In psychology, a long-term systematic study of one or several research objects. In the research, we should pay attention to the comprehensive investigation of social conditions, the influence of education and family, activities, work, physical health, and the development and changes of psychological activities and personality quality under the influence of these factors, and find out the laws of the development and changes of psychological activities.

The subjects can be children, normal adults or patients. It can be carried out under normal conditions or experimental conditions.

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