Charles Ragin

The primary goal of Charles Ragin, social scientist and innovative methodologist, is to develop methods that help students and researchers unravel causal complexity in their research. This has led to his developing and championing the use of set-theoretic methods in the social sciences, most notably, his Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and fuzzy set analysis. In a recent review article in Contemporary Sociology entitled "The Ragin Revolution" (Vaisey review), sociologist Stephen Vaisey describes Ragin's work as a "principled alternative" to quantitative analysis (which assumes away casual complexity) and qualitative case-based methods (which lack tools for generalizing across cases.) Many who have adopted Ragin's methods believe that these techniques combine the strength of both quantitative and qualitative methods, while transcending their limits.

Affiliations:

-University of Arizona

http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cragin/cragin/

	Title	Lead Author/Editor	Pub Date	Price
	Configurational Comparative Methods Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Related Techniques	Benoît Rihoux	04-09-2008	£29.99
	Constructing Social Research , Second Edition The Unity and Diversity of Method	Charles C. Ragin	14-09-2010	£27.99
	The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods	David Byrne	26-03-2013	£29.99

	Title	ISSN	Frequency	Prices
	Field Methods	1525-822X	Quarterly	Institutional: £419.00 Individual: £77.00
	Sociological Methods & Research	0049-1241	Quarterly	Institutional: £567.00 Individual: £109.00
	International Journal of Comparative Sociology	0020-7152	Published 6 times a year	Individual: £58.00 Institutional: £500.00