Think you’re Unique?

I have a great respect for and appreciation of social workers.  My two sisters and some of my best friends have been social workers.   But as a sociologist, and ultimately a criminologist, social worker reliance on the case study method as a valid research method has always driven me crazy.

What we know from studying one is just that:  we know that one. To assume that we can learn anything about which we can generalize, can extrapolate from that one and presume we now know Read more