A group of people on a cliff one with no shirt and khaki shorts, one in a black ball cap, white shirt and black shorts and another in a striped shirt, black shorts holding a video camera.
The people are outside
As this implies, to researchers, the case study is an intensely personal method, dependent on the investigator's sensitivity, insights, and skill in noticing many things, recording them, and producing a narrative that suggests a pattern of the elements-or that recognizes the pattern that is there in the culture in its own terms.