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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press (19 Sep 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0226702758
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226702759
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 415,528 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"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 work. But 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"

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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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I was led to this book by Peer Fiss' recent article on fuzzy sets in the Academy of Management Review. The fsQCA methodology had significant appeal for me as I had confronted "insignificant outcomes" in my dissertation research due to a unexpectedly small sample size. Ragin is a key figure, perhaps the founding proponent, of the fsQCA method that he popularized in the 1980s. The concept of using fuzzy set theory to extend qualitative comparative analysis appears logical and Ragin certainly details the application of the method in this book well enough to allow the reader to apply the method.

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