3.5 Case Study / Focused-Group Discussion

Case study = the one unit in depth — the single court, the single statute's implementation, the single case's life (the Sunil Babu Pant case-study; the Melamchi-guarantee dispute as the bipartite- guarantee's anatomy — Contract-II, this semester); the intrinsic (the case for its own sake) vs the instrumental (the case for the general point). The sources' triangulation: documents, interviews, observation — the case-study's own multi-method. Focused-Group Discussion(FGD) = the moderated group conversation (the 6–12 participants, the homogeneity's comfort, the moderator's guide): the shared attitudes' surfacing (the community's justice perceptions; the victims' groups; the women's experiences of the family-court process). Thestrengths: the depth (case) and the interaction's data (FGD — the agreements and disagreements both recorded). The limits: the generalisation's honesty (the case is not the population) and the moderator's skill-dependence (the dominant voice's management).