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ERIC Number: EJ1194079
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Nov
Pages: 28
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ISSN: ISSN-0049-1241
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Analyzing Relationships of Necessity Not Just "in Kind" but Also "in Degree": Complementing fsQCA with NCA
Vis, Barbara; Dul, Jan
Sociological Methods & Research, v47 n4 p872-899 Nov 2018
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.
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Language: English
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