Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research: examples in the geography of health.

By S. Curtis, W. Gesler, Glenn Smith, Sarah A. Washburn. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2000

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Energy justice at the end of the wire: Enacting community energy and equity in Wales (2017, positive): “Three projects were selected using case selection criteria developed by Miles and Huberman (1994; see also: Curtis et al, 2000) with the aim to include projects from each of north, south, and mid-Wales to ensure a sample representative of the Welsh context.”
A Typology of Mixed Methods Sampling Designs in Social Science Research (2007, positive): “In contrast, many qualitative researchers, although not all, tend to make “analytic” generalizations (Miles & Huberman, 1994), which are “applied to wider theory on the basis of how selected cases ‘fit’ with general constructs” (Curtis et al., 2000, p. 1002); or they make generalizations that involv”
Performance measurement systems in the Finnish public sector (2007, background): “Instead, theoretical or purposive sampling is used (Eisenhardt, 1989; Yin, 1989; Curtis et al., 2000).”
Success and Failure, Fear of Failure, and Coping Responses of Adolescent Academy Football Players (2010, background): “Limited sport-related research has associated fear of failure with athletic stress, worry, anxiety (cognitive and somatic; Conroy, Willow, & Metzler, 2002 ), dropout ( Orlick, 1974 ), avoidance goals ( Conroy & Elliot, 2004 ), impaired interpersonal behavior and sporting performance ( Sagar et al, ”
The barriers to the progression of additive manufacture: perspectives from UK industry (2018, background): “This strategy ensured a minimum number of case studies in each category which would yield rich, generalizable, believable information (Curtis et al., 2000).”
Sampling Designs in Qualitative Research: Making the Sampling Process More Public (2007, result): “In contrast, in interpreting their data, qualitative researchers typically tend to make one of the following types of generalizations: (a) statistical generalizations, (b) analytic generalizations, and (c) case-to-case transfer (Curtis et al., 2000; Firestone, 1993; Kennedy, 1979; Miles & Huberman, ”