Description
In designing a case study, one of the first important steps is defining the boundaries of the case. It is valuable to distinguish three bases for bounding the case in both spatial and temporal terms. The first, commonsense bounding, involves the documentation and critical investigation of the ways in which research subjects themselves experience and enact the boundaries surrounding the case phenomenon under study.
The second, theoretical bounding, involves the theoretically informed investigation and analytical reappraisal of the social relations and processes in play in and around the case, which may involve a refocusing of the research within more theoretically refined or coherent boundaries. Finally, the third form of bounding is methodological, as both the investigation and theorizing of the phenomena under study are partitioned into an intensive analysis of the case and a summary characterization of the external context of the case. (Mills et al., 2010, p. 56).
Instructions: Pretend that you were going to conduct a case study on being a front-line worker during a pandemic, you would need to identify the boundaries of your study and what data to collect. Answer the following questions in one page:
What would you identify as the boundaries of the case?
What might the external context or the spatial and temporal boundaries be (time and place)?
What might the event context be?
What might the theoretical context be?
What might Institutional contexts be
What might the cultural contexts be?
Identify at least 3 types of data that you could collect and explain why multiple forms of data are used in case study.
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