For over twenty years Charles C. Ragin has been at the forefront of
the development of innovative methods for social scientists. In
Redesigning 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 Inquiry provides 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 analysis and conventional quantitative research,
Ragin demonstrates the capacity for set-theoretic methods to
strengthen connections between qualitative researchers’ deep
knowledge of their cases and quantitative researchers’ elaboration
of cross-case patterns. Packed with useful examples, Redesigning
Social Inquiry will be indispensable to experienced professionals and
to budding scholars about to embark on their first project.
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Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780226702797
Publisert
2018
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Vendor
University of Chicago Press
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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