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COMMENT: LUCAS AND SZATROWSKI IN CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE

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The stated goal of Lucas and Szatrowski (this volume, pp. 1–79; hereafter
L&S) is to provide a critical evaluation of qualitative comparative
analysis (QCA), with the objective of discouraging researchers from
using the method. However, they fail to provide a meaningful critique.
Close inspection reveals not only that they address a shallow caricature
of QCA but also that their analysis has fatal flaws.
This response to L&S opens with a discussion of QCA’s essential
features as an approach to social research, which L&S largely ignore. I
next turn to the challenge of identifying patterns in empirical evidence
and explicate the distinctiveness of QCA’s approach, especially its
attention to cases as configurations, its use of the method of elimination,
and its allowance for causal asymmetry, aspects L&S fail to properly
grasp. I then pinpoint fatal errors in their analysis of the space shuttle
data, their single attempt to analyze empirical evidence. I also identify a
basic flaw in their application of QCA to “deterministic” data.

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Judul Seri

Sociological Methodology

No. Panggil

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Penerbit

USA : American Sociological Association., 2014

Deskripsi Fisik

Sociological Methodology 2014, Vol. 44(1) 80–158

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English

ISBN/ISSN

DOI: 10.1177/0081175

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Tipe Media

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Edisi

2014, Vol. 44(1) 80–158

Subjek

sociology

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