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SUMMARY:Summer School in Social Research Methods: Comparative Research Designs
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this course is to provide training on all aspects that enable a researcher to build and implement the most appropriate comparative research design – the latter broadly defined as any research enterprise that comprises at least two ‘cases’ or observations. On the one hand\, the course will cover a few fundamental upstream questions: why compare; what is the added value of comparison? What are the logical underpinnings and mental operations behind comparison? What should be the mindset of a good comparative researcher? What should be his/her goals? What is the link between a research puzzle and the choice for a comparative research design? On the other hand\, the practicalities of different types of comparative research designs will be examined in detail\, by following all the hands-on steps: (1) prior arbitrations and ‘casing’\, i.e. the definition of the cases; (2) case selection\, through more basic or more advanced strategies; (3) collecting and managing comparative data; (4) comparative data analysis (qualitative\, QCA and quantitative options). Steps (1) and (2) will be examined in greater detail. \nThis course is offered as part of the Summer School in Social Research Methods which is developed and coordinated by MethodsNET in collaboration with the Nijmegen School of Management\, Radboud University. MethodsNET is a global methods excellence network that offers world class training in social research methods\, through its top instructors from renowned universities worldwide. This course of the Summer School in Social Research Methods has a unique approach: the morning is fully dedicated to the course topics mentioned in the course description. In the afternoon\, you can choose to take part in a rich set of extra optional training activities to broaden or deepen your skills and knowledge.
URL:https://compasss.org/event/summer-school-in-social-research-methods-comparative-research-designs/
LOCATION:Radboud University\, Houtlaan 4\, Nijmegen\, 6525 XZ\, Netherlands
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SUMMARY:Summer School in Social Research Methods: Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
DESCRIPTION:This course introduces students to the nuts and bolts of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)\, an innovative set-theoretic technique that allows for comparisons of small\, intermediate or large numbers of cases in order to identify necessary and/or sufficient conditions for an outcome. It is an attractive method for scholars who seek to model causally complex patterns and integrate in-depth case knowledge at all stages of the analysis. We will introduce you to performing QCA with the freely available R software using the user-friendly RStudio environment. We will primarily discuss QCA as a case-oriented approach to small- and intermediate N comparisons. The intensive five-day course has a practical focus and combines theoretical blocks with many hands-on exercises and quizes. We will use real-life data to replicate a published study and discuss examples from the participants’ own research projects in class. The course covers the following topics: \n\nQCA: Origin\, variants\, uses and approaches\nSet theory and causal complexity\nDefining\, structuring\, measuring and calibrating concepts as sets\nAnalyses of necessity and sufficiency\nTruth tables\, limited diversity and counterfactual reasoning\nConservative\, intermediate and parsimonious solution types\nSet-theoretic multi-method research\nPotential pitfalls (skewed data\, model ambiguities) \n\nThis course is offered as part of the Summer School in Social Research Methods which is developed and coordinated by MethodsNET in collaboration with the Nijmegen School of Management\, Radboud University. MethodsNET is a global methods excellence network that offers world class training in social research methods\, through its top instructors from renowned universities worldwide. This course of the Summer School in Social Research Methods has a unique approach: the morning is fully dedicated to the course topics mentioned in the course description. In the afternoon\, you can choose to take part in a rich set of extra optional training activities to broaden or deepen your skills and knowledge.
URL:https://compasss.org/event/summer-school-in-social-research-methods-introduction-to-qualitative-comparative-analysis-qca/
LOCATION:Radboud University\, Houtlaan 4\, Nijmegen\, 6525 XZ\, Netherlands
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