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Redesigning social inquiry : fuzzy sets and beyond / Charles C. Ragin.
Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.Description: viii, 225 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780226702735 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226702759 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226702731 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226702758 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 300.72 RAG 22
- H62 .R235 2008
- 70.03
Contents:
contents
Acknowledgments, vii
Introduction, 1
part i
Set-Theoretic versus Correlational Connections
1: Set Relations in Social Research: Basic Concepts, 13
2: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy-Set Relations, 29
3: Evaluating Set Relations: Consistency and Coverage, 44
part ii
Calibration versus Measurement
4: Why Calibrate? 71
5: Calibrating Fuzzy Sets, 85
part iii
Configurations of Conditions versus “Independent” Variables
6: Configurational Thinking, 109
7: Configurational Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets
and Truth Tables, 124
part iv
Analysis of Causal Complexity versus Analysis of Net Effects
8: Limited Diversity and Counterfactual Cases
coauthored with John Sonnett, 147
9: Easy versus Difficult Counterfactuals, 160
10: The Limitations of Net Effects Thinking, 176
11: Net Effects versus Configurations:
An Empirical Demonstration
coauthored with Peer Fiss, 190
References, 213
Index, 221
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219) and index.
contents
Acknowledgments, vii
Introduction, 1
part i
Set-Theoretic versus Correlational Connections
1: Set Relations in Social Research: Basic Concepts, 13
2: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy-Set Relations, 29
3: Evaluating Set Relations: Consistency and Coverage, 44
part ii
Calibration versus Measurement
4: Why Calibrate? 71
5: Calibrating Fuzzy Sets, 85
part iii
Configurations of Conditions versus “Independent” Variables
6: Configurational Thinking, 109
7: Configurational Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets
and Truth Tables, 124
part iv
Analysis of Causal Complexity versus Analysis of Net Effects
8: Limited Diversity and Counterfactual Cases
coauthored with John Sonnett, 147
9: Easy versus Difficult Counterfactuals, 160
10: The Limitations of Net Effects Thinking, 176
11: Net Effects versus Configurations:
An Empirical Demonstration
coauthored with Peer Fiss, 190
References, 213
Index, 221