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Introduction; 1. Cases of 'what is a case?' Charles C. Ragin; Part I.Cases Are Found: 2. Small Ns and community case studies Douglas Harper;3. What do cases do? Some notes on activity in sociological analysisAndrew Abbott; Part II. Cases Are Objects: 4. Small Ns and bigconclusions: an examination of the reasoning in comparative studiesbased on a small number of cases Stanley Lieberson; 5. Theoryelaboration: the heuristics of case analysis Diane Vaughan; Part III.Cases Are Made: 6. Case studies: history or sociology? MichelWieviorka; 7. Making theoretical cases John Walton; Part IV. Cases AreConventions: 8. Cases on cases ... of cases Jennifer Platt; 9. Casesare for identity, for explanation, or for control; Conclusion; 10.Cases, causes, conjunctures, stories and imagery Howard C. White.