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The selection of a qualitative design for this study presents the
bias that the data must be interpreted by the researcher through inductive and/or
intuitive processes (Bogdan & Taylor, 1975). "The case study has long been
stereotyped as the weak sibling among social science methods" (Yin, 1989, p. 104) and
is often criticized as being too subjective and even pseudo-scientific. Likewise,
"investigators who do case studies are often regarded as having deviated from their
academic disciplines, and their investigations as having insufficient precision (that is,
quantification), objectivity, and rigor" (p. 110). Erickson (1986) states that
"the object of interpretive research is action . . . [and] because actions are
grounded in choices of meaning interpretation, they are always open to reinterpretation
and change" (p. 127).
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