The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies

✍ Scribed by Charles C. Ragin

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Charles C. Ragin’s The Comparative Method proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative and quantitative sociology. Elegantly accessible and germane to the work of all the social sciences, and now updated with a new introduction, this book will continue to garner interest, debate, and praise.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface and Overview
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the 2014 Edition
1. The Distinctiveness of Comparative Social
2. Heterogeneity and Causal
3. Case-Oriented Comparative
4. The Variable-Oriented
5. Combined Versus Synthetic Comparative
6. A Boolean Approach to Qualitative Comparison: Basic Concepts
7. Extensions of Boolean Methods of Qualitative Comparison
8. Applications of Boolean Methods of Qualitative Comparison
9. The Dialogue of Ideas and Evidence in Social
Bibliography
Index