2004 What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good for? JOHN GERRING Boston University T his paper aims to clarify the meaning‚ and explain the utility‚ of the case study method‚ a method often practiced but little understood. A “case study‚” I argue‚ is best defined as an intensive study of a single unit with an aim to generalize across a larger set of units. Case studies rely on the same sort of covariational evidence utilized in non-case study research. Thus‚ the case study method is correctly
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measure‚ the Neuroticism-Extraversion-Openness Personality Inventory Revised (NEO-PIR) (Costa & McCrae‚ 1992)‚ and the also commonly applied‚ but at the same time often criticized‚ Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (Myers‚ 1962)‚ which is based on Carl Jung’s type theory (1921‚ as cited in Jung‚ 1971). In this paper‚ a brief description of the personality concept and the usefulness of personality measures are initially presented. Following this‚ a general discussion of the Big Five model and the
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assignment is to review the case study of the therapeutic session of Dr Carl Rogers and his client‚ Gloria. I will give a brief account of the presenting problem and some theory of Person Centred Therapy to enable me to observe and analyse the techniques used as a strategy to self actualisation. Using transcripts‚ I will identify some of these skills and observe how effective they were by observing Gloria. I will discuss my opinion of the counselling session and evaluate Dr Rogers’ strengths and weaknesses
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Religious Rebellion Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious beliefs that went against the church. Anne Hutchinson was banished from Boston by John Winthrop‚ and other members of the Boston church‚ for speaking out against the ministers and their sermons. Roger Williams was exiled from Salem by the members of the Salem Church for preaching his “four extreme positions” (NAAL‚ Volume A‚ 174)‚ specifically stating that the New England churches
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areas‚which always made us feel very special. We owe this to our teachers and especially to our Principal Mr. Carl Laurie‚ who always encouraged us to learn from our mistakes and strengthened the understanding of our own capabilities by engaging with our team members on every occasion. Co curricular and extracurricular activities are as important for us Christ Churchites as our studies. All the inter house activities starting from chess‚ cricket‚ basketball‚ elocution‚ debates and many more witnessed
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CARL JUNG AND THE THEORY OF ARCHETYPES Background Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26‚ 1875‚ in the small Swiss village of Kessewil...He was surrounded by a fairly well educated extended family‚ including quite a few clergymen and some eccentrics as well. [Jung’s father] started Carl on Latin when he was six years old‚ beginning a long interest in language and literature -- especially ancient literature. Besides most modern western European languages‚ Jung could read several ancient ones‚ including
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Old Roger Chillingworth‚ throughout his life‚ had been regarded as the ideal man of the established society in Europe‚ well venerated among civilians due to his spiritual cleansing capabilities and expansive knowledge of Christian medicine—a man initially respected for his progressive‚ yet overall proleptical scientific reasoning and investigative thinking which allowed him to obtain such a valued status in Boston. [TRANSITION] Perhaps the Black man commenced to avert his attentions from performing
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Roger Clemens or “the Rocket” was one of the best pitchers in baseball. He played for four teams including the Boston Red Sox‚ Toronto Blue Jays‚ New York Yankees‚ and Houston Astros. He played 4916 innings in his twenty-four year career. He has the most Cy Young Awards out of any player and has the third most strikeouts in the history of the sport. After all of his success he was on the path to having his name in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Although with every strong career comes large
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I could not put down the book Gym Candy by Carl Deuker. It is a great book about sports and truly displays the life of a football player and what some people are willing to do to become great. The main character in my book is Mick Johnson and ever since he was three he was striving to be great football player like his father was. But no matter how much effort he displays on the field or in the gym he always comes up short. So Mick decides that it’s time for a change so he decides to use “gym candy”
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While reading the Chicago Poems by Carl Sandburg I got the feeling as though I was in the early 1920’s. I was able to know what life was like back then and how the people of the time felt about the events that were going on around them. He wrote what he was experiencing during the First World War and how death was realized by this generation for the first time. This work was quite efficient in doing what it needed to do. It is difficult for a poet to convey a single message in a collection of
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