Redesigning Social Inquiry Fuzzy Sets and Beyond by Charles C Ragin

Redesigning Social Inquiry Fuzzy Sets and Beyond by Charles C Ragin

Offers a critique of the standard approach to social research - namely, assessing the relative importance of causal variables drawn from competing theories. This book proposes the use of set-theoretic methods to find a middle path between quantitative and qualitative research.

"Redesigning Social Inquiry is aimed at social scientists looking to escape the banality of everyday quantitative research, and here they'll find a sophisticated way out of all the by-the-numbers workBut this book also speaks to those of us who have a profound knowledge of cases and want to explore the implications of this understanding. With this rigorous yet accessible book, Charles Ragin has completed his mission to reorient social science." - Edwin Amenta, University of California, Irvine"

Charles C. Ragin is professor of sociology and political science at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Fuzzy-Set Social Science and The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies.

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ISBN 13	9780226702759
ISBN 10	0226702758
Title	Redesigning Social Inquiry Fuzzy Sets and Beyond
Author	Charles C Ragin
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The University of Chicago Press
Year published	2008-10-01
Number of pages	240
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