Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just "in Kind" but Also "in Degree": Complementing fsQCA with NCA

Autor/inn/en	Vis, Barbara; Dul, Jan
Titel	Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just "in Kind" but Also "in Degree": Complementing fsQCA with NCA
Quelle	In: Sociological Methods & Research, 47 (2018) 4, S.872-899 (28 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0049-1241
DOI	10.1177/0049124115626179
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Comparative Analysis; Social Science Research; Theories; Identification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Theory; Theorie; Identifikation; Identifizierung
Abstract	Analyzing relationships of necessity is important for both scholarly and applied research questions in the social sciences. An often-used technique for identifying such relationships--"fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis" (fsQCA)--has limited ability to make the most out of the data used. The set-theoretical technique fsQCA makes statements in kind (e.g., "a condition or configuration is necessary or not for an outcome"), thereby ignoring the variation "in degree." We propose to apply a recently developed technique for identifying relationships of necessity that can make both statements "in kind" and "in degree," thus making full use of variation in the data: "Necessary Condition Analysis" (NCA). With its ability to also make statements "in degree" ("a specific level of a condition is necessary or not for a specific level of the outcome"), NCA can complement the "in kind" analysis of necessity with fsQCA. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01