Description: Redesigning Social Inquiry - Fuzzy Sets and BeyondAuthor(s): Charles C. Ragin Format: Paperback Publisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States Imprint: University of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 9780226702759, 978-0226702759 Synopsis 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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Book Title: Redesigning Social Inquiry - Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Name: Redesigning Social Inquiry-Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
Language: English
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 216 mm
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 304 g
Subject Area: Social Research
Author: Charles C. Ragin
Item Width: 145 mm
Format: Paperback
