Redesigning Social Inquiry Fuzzy Sets and Beyond

Name: Redesigning Social Inquiry Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780226702759

ISBN-10: 0226702758

ISBN-13: 9780226702759

Edition: 2008

Authors: Charles C. Ragin

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For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of the development of innovative methods for social scientists. InRedesigning Social Inquiry, he continues his campaign to revitalize the field, challenging major aspects of the conventional template for social science research while offering a clear alternative. Redesigning Social Inquiryprovides a substantive critique of the standard approach to social research-namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. Instead, Ragin proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative and qualitative research. Through a series of contrasts between fuzzy-set…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.46" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. Set-Theoretic versus Correlational Connections Chapter 1. Set Relations in Social Research: Basic Concepts Chapter 2. Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy-Set Relations Chapter 3. Evaluating Set Relations: Consistency and Coverage Part II. Calibration versus Measurement Chapter 4. Why Calibrate? Chapter 5. Calibrating Fuzzy Sets Part III. Configurations of Conditions versus "Independent" Variables Chapter 6. Configurational Thinking Chapter 7. Configurational Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets and Truth Tables Part IV. Analysis of Causal Complexity versus Analysis of Net Effects Chapter 8. Limited Diversity and Counterfactual Cases coauthored with John Sonnett Chapter 9. Easy…