Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond /
Charles C. Ragin
- Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- 225 p.
Contém índice e bibliografia
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I -- Set-Theoretic versus Correlational Connections -- 1: Set Relations in Social Research: Basic Concepts -- 2: Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy-Set Relations -- 3: Evaluating Set Relations: Consistency and Coverage Part II -- Calibration versus Measurement -- 4: Why Calibrate? -- 5: Calibrating Fuzzy Sets Part III -- Configurations of Conditions versus “Independent” Variables -- 6: Configurational Thinking -- 7: Configurational Analysis Using Fuzzy Sets -- and Truth Tables Part IV -- Analysis of Causal Complexity versus Analysis of Net Effects -- 8: Limited Diversity and Counterfactual Cases coauthored with John Sonnett -- 9: Easy versus Difficult Counterfactuals -- 10: The Limitations of Net Effects Thinking -- 11: Net Effects versus Configurations: An Empirical Demonstration coauthored with Peer Fiss -- References-- Index