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Informationen zum Autor Charles C. Ragin spent most of his youth in Texas and the southeastern United States. He attended the University of Texas at Austin as an undergraduate and received his BA degree in 1972 at the age of 19. That same year he began graduate work in sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received his PhD in 1975. From 1975 until 2001, he lived in the Midwest, teaching first at Indiana University and then at Northwestern University. He headed west in 2001, where he spent just over a decade at University of Arizona-Tucson. In 2012, he joined the faculty at the University of California-Irvine, where he is currently the Chancellor's Professor of Sociology. He is best known for developing a methodological alternative to conventional research methods, using formal set-theoretic techniques for comparative research. His many publications address broad issues in politics and society, with topics ranging from the causes of ethnic political mobilization to the shaping of the welfare state in advanced capitalist countries. He has written several books including Intersectional Inequality: Race, Class, Test Scores and Poverty (with Peer Fiss, 2017). Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond (2008) Fuzzy-Set Social Science (2000). His book The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies (1987) won the 1989 Stein Rokkan Prize of the International Social Science Council of UNESCO. In 2014 he received the Paul F. Lazarsfeld Award of the American Sociological Association. He is married to Mary Driscoll, and they have two sons, Andrew and Daniel. Klappentext Configurational Comparative Methods paves the way for an innovative approach to empirical scientific work through a strategy that integrates key strengths of both qualitative (case-oriented) and quantitative (variable-oriented) approaches. This first-of-its-kind text is ideally suited for "small-N" or "intermediate-N" research situations, which both mainstream qualitative and quantitative methods find difficult to address. Benoît Rihoux and Charles C. Ragin, along with their contributing authors, offer both a basic, comparative research design overview and a technical and hands-on review of Crisp-Set QCA (csQCA), Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA), and Fuzzy-Set QCA (fsQCA). Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION - Benoît Rihoux and Charles Ragin 1. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisèle De Meur, Benoît Rihoux & Charles Ragin 2. Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection - Dirk Berg-Schlosser & Gisèle De Meur 3. Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (CSQCA) - Benoît Rihoux & Gisèle De Meur 4. Multi-Value QCA (MVQCA) - Lasse Cronqvist & Dirk Berg-Schlosser 5. Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets (FSQCA) - Charles C. Ragin 6. A Commented Review of Applications - Sakura Yamasaki & Benoît Rihoux 7. Addressing the Critiques of QCA - Gisèle De Meur, Benoît Rihoux & Sakura Yamasaki 8. Conclusions - The Way(s) Ahead - Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin and Sakura Yamasaki FURTHER RESOURCES FOR CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS - Damien Bol and Sakura Yamasaki GLOSSARY - Sakura Yamasaki, Benoît Rihoux, Gisèle De Meur and Charles C. Ragin THEMATIC AND AUTHOR INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHORS A Commented Review of Applications - Sakura Yamasaki, Benoît Rihoux Addressing the Critiques of QCA - Gisele De Meur, Benoît Rihoux, Sakura Yamasaki Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisele De Meur Conclusions - The Way(s) ...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
INTRODUCTION - Benoît Rihoux and Charles Ragin
1. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisèle De Meur, Benoît Rihoux & Charles Ragin
2. Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection - Dirk Berg-Schlosser & Gisèle De Meur
3. Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (CSQCA) - Benoît Rihoux & Gisèle De Meur
4. Multi-Value QCA (MVQCA) - Lasse Cronqvist & Dirk Berg-Schlosser
5. Qualitative Comparative Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets (FSQCA) - Charles C. Ragin
6. A Commented Review of Applications - Sakura Yamasaki & Benoît Rihoux
7. Addressing the Critiques of QCA - Gisèle De Meur, Benoît Rihoux & Sakura Yamasaki
8. Conclusions - The Way(s) Ahead - Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin and Sakura Yamasaki
FURTHER RESOURCES FOR CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS - Damien Bol and Sakura Yamasaki
GLOSSARY - Sakura Yamasaki, Benoît Rihoux, Gisèle De Meur and Charles C. Ragin
THEMATIC AND AUTHOR INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
A Commented Review of Applications - Sakura Yamasaki, Benoît Rihoux
Addressing the Critiques of QCA - Gisele De Meur, Benoît Rihoux, Sakura Yamasaki
Comparative Research Design: Case and Variable Selection - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisele De Meur
Conclusions - The Way(s) Ahead - Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin, Sakura Yamasaki, Damien Bol
Crisp-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis - Benoît Rihoux, Gisele De Meur
Multi-Value QCA (mvQCA) - Lasse Cronqvist, Dirk Berg-Schlosser
Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as an Approach - Dirk Berg-Schlosser, Gisele De Meur, Benoît Rihoux, Charles Ragin
