Mauceri, Sergio - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 48 (2014) 5, pp. 2773-2790
alternate with standard procedures: the pilot study, pretesting, and deviant case analysis. If the first two of these stages … have enjoyed a certain recognition in the literature, the same cannot be said for deviant case analysis. Deviant case … analysis is a research strategy originally proposed by Lazarsfeld and promoted within the Colombia School from the 1940s to the …