ABSTRACT
When an empirical analysis of a single case is to be carried out, it can be of either of two general types. First, description and explanation of the single case to provide information concerning its present state, and the dynamics through which it continues as it does. This may be called a particularizing analysis. Second, the development of empirical generalizations or theory through the analysis of the single case using it not to discover anything about it as a system but as an empirical basis either for generalization or theory construction. This may be called a generalizing analysis. An internal analysis will not ordinarily be as exhaustive of the important elements which affect a particular variable as will a comparative analysis, simply because certain things are invariant for the single system as a whole.
