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CASE STUDY
August 29,2019
Who introduced the case study research method? (La Rivière-Saint-Sauveur, France)
Frederic Le Play first introduced the case-study method into social science in 1829 as a
handmaiden to statistics in his studies of family budgets.
In all these disciplines, case studies were an occasion for postulating new theories, as in
the grounded-theory work of sociologists Barney Glaser (1930- ) and Anselm Strauss (1916-
1996).
One of the areas in which case studies have been gaining popularity is education and in
particular educational evaluation.
Comparative case studies, in social science, policy, and education research; discusses one
approach, which encourages researchers to compare horizontally, vertically, and temporally.
Christopher Columbus Langdell (New Boston, New Hampshire United States)
The Case Study Teaching Method. It is easy to get confused between the case study method
and the case method, particularly as it applies to legal education. Thecase method in legal
education was invented by Christopher Columbus Langdell, Dean of Harvard Law School from
1870 to 1895.
A major advantage of teaching with case studies is that the students are actively engaged in
figuring out the principles by abstracting from the examples. This develops their skills in:
Problem solving.
Case studies are extremely useful in order to gain very detailed accounts from
individual cases which are important in psychology. The detailed information within the case
studies is invaluable for contributing to support or disprove theories within the field
of psychology.