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_bInderlok Delhi
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_d04.10.2021
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100 1 _aRagin, Charles C.
245 1 0 _aFuzzy-set social science /
_cCharles C. Ragin.
260 _aChicago :
_bUniversity of Chicago Press,
_c2000.
300 _axviii, 352 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
365 _b3582.00
505 _apt. 1. Diversity-Oriented Research. 1. Diversity-Oriented Research: Between Complexity and Generality. 2. Constituting Populations. 3. Studying Cases as Configurations. 4. Causal Complexity. 5. The Logic of Diversity-Oriented Research -- pt. 2. Fuzzy-Set Methods. 6. Fuzzy Sets and the Study of Diversity. 7. Using Fuzzy Sets to Constitute Cases and Populations. 8. Fuzzy Sets and Necessary Conditions. 9. Using Fuzzy Sets to Study Sufficient Conditions. 10. Causal Complexity: Applying Fuzzy-Set Methods. 11. Fuzzy Sets and the Dialogue between Ideas and Evidence.
520 _aIn this innovative approach to the practice of social science, Charles Ragin explores the use of fuzzy sets to bridge the divide between quantitive and qualitative methods. He argues that fuzzy sets allow a far richer dialogue between ideas and evidence in social research than previously possible.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
650 0 _aFuzzy sets.
655 _aSciences sociales -- Recherche
942 _cBOOK