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Configurational Comparative Methods
Author | : Benoît Rihoux,Charles C. Ragin |
Publsiher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781412942355 |
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This new addition to the Applied Social Research Methods series is unrivalled, it is written by leaders in the growing field of rigorous, comparative techniques.
Comparative Policy Studies
Author | : I. Engeli,C. Rothmayr Allison,Christine Rothmayr Allison |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-05-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137314154 |
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In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries.
Research Methods in the Social Sciences an A Z of Key Concepts
Author | : Jean-édéric Morin,Christian Olsson,Ece Özlem Atikcan |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780198850298 |
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Research Methods in the Social Sciences is a comprehensive yet compact A-Z for undergraduate and postgraduate students undertaking research across the social sciences, featuring 71 entries that cover a wide range of concepts, methods, and theories. Each entry begins with an accessible introduction to a method, using real-world examples from a wide range of academic disciplines, before discussing the benefits and limitations of the approach, its current status in academic practice, and finally providing tips and advice for readers on when and how to apply the method in their own research. Wide ranging and interdisciplinary, the text covers both well-established concepts and emerging ideas, such as big data and network analysis, for qualitative and quantitative research methods. All entries feature extensive cross-referencing, providing ease of navigation and, pointing readers to related concepts, and to help build their overall understanding of research methods.
Configurational Theory and Methods in Organizational Research
Author | : Peer C. Fiss,Bart Cambre,Axel Marx |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781781907788 |
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Some 20 years after the emergence of configurational theory as a key perspective in organization studies in the 1990s, this approach has yet to deliver on its promise. While we know that configurations the relative arrangement of parts and elements - matters, empirical research on configurations is just beginning to deliver on its promise.
Intersectional Inequality
Author | : Charles C. Ragin,Peer C. Fiss |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780226414409 |
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In this guidebook, we have a powerful contribution to social science methodology in a context where methodology is contested, and is therefore "political”: different methodologies can produce quite different results or findings using the same evidence. The evidence in Ragin and Fiss’s book is survey data. Ragin’s has developed for 25 years a way to bridge the case study method and the "large n” statistical study. He calls it the "set analytic method”--making use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitative and qualitative methods. Paradoxically, the fuzzy set is a powerful tool because it replaces an unwieldy, "fuzzy" instrument--the variable, which establishes only the positions of cases relative to each other, with a precise one--degree of membership in a well-defined set. Now, with Intersectional Inequality, Ragin and his coauthor, Peter Fiss, show how the method works in application to a very mainstream sociological research topic. That topic, the use of IQ and school achievement tests as predictors of life chances, is advanced here by viewing cases intersectionally, i.e., in terms of the different ways they combine causally relevant conditions. The specific controversy they take up is the famous Bell Curve book of Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein which argued that IQ is influenced by both inherited and environmental factors. Controversy has gone on for 20 years over which variable has the strongest impact on life changes: education, or test scores, or family background. The centrality, now more than ever, of education to American social and economic policy, compels close re-examination of traditional methods (and the blind spots of the so-called net-effects approach). By use of this sophisticated qualitative comparative analysis, Ragin and Fiss underscore the importance of racial differences in addressing social inequality in America today.
Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences
Author | : Donatella Della Porta,Michael Keating |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2008-08-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781139474597 |
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A revolutionary textbook introducing masters and doctoral students to the major research approaches and methodologies in the social sciences. Written by an outstanding set of scholars, and derived from successful course teaching, this volume will empower students to choose their own approach to research, to justify this approach, and to situate it within the discipline. It addresses questions of ontology, epistemology and philosophy of social science, and proceeds to issues of methodology and research design essential for producing a good research proposal. It also introduces researchers to the main issues of debate and contention in the methodology of social sciences, identifying commonalities, historic continuities and genuine differences.
Qualitative Comparative Analysis with R
Author | : Alrik Thiem,Adrian Dusa |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 109 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781461445845 |
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Social science theory often builds on sets and their relations. Correlation-based methods of scientific enquiry, however, use linear algebra and are unsuited to analyzing set relations. The development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) by Charles Ragin has given social scientists a formal tool for identifying set-theoretic connections based on Boolean algebra. As a result, interest in this method has markedly risen among social scientists in recent years. This book offers the first complete introduction on how to perform QCA in the R software environment for statistical computing and graphics with the QCA package. Developed as a comprehensive solution, QCA provides an unprecedented scope of functionality for analyzing crisp, multi-value and fuzzy sets. The reader is not required to have knowledge of R, but the book assumes an understanding of the fundamentals of QCA. Using examples from published work, the authors demonstrate how to make the most of QCA’s wide-ranging capabilities for the reader’s own purposes. Although mainly written for political scientists, this book is also of interest to scholars from other disciplines in the social sciences such as sociology, business, management, organization, anthropology, education and health.
The SAGE Handbook of Case Based Methods
Author | : David Byrne,Charles C Ragin |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 561 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781412930512 |
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This handbook provides a clear examination of case-oriented research. It defines case-based social research as a subfield of methodology.