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Selectivity and Flexibility in the German Secondary School System: A Configurational Analysis of recent data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2011)
Journal Article
Glaesser, J., & Cooper, B. (2011). Selectivity and Flexibility in the German Secondary School System: A Configurational Analysis of recent data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. European Sociological Review, 27(5), 57-585. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcq026

Debate continues in many European countries about both equality of opportunity and the continuing wastage of talent, and the ways in which differing systems of secondary schooling contribute to these. Drawing on Turner’s concepts of sponsored and con... Read More about Selectivity and Flexibility in the German Secondary School System: A Configurational Analysis of recent data from the German Socio-Economic Panel.

Paradoxes and pitfalls in using fuzzy set QCA: illustrations from a critical review of a study of educational inequality (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2011). Paradoxes and pitfalls in using fuzzy set QCA: illustrations from a critical review of a study of educational inequality. Sociological Research Online, 16(3), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.2444

Charles Ragin's crisp set and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA and fsQCA) are being used by increasing numbers of social scientists interested in combining analytic rigour with case-based approaches. As with all techniques that becom... Read More about Paradoxes and pitfalls in using fuzzy set QCA: illustrations from a critical review of a study of educational inequality.

Using case-based approaches to analyse large datasets: a comparison of Ragin's fsQCA and fuzzy cluster analysis (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2011). Using case-based approaches to analyse large datasets: a comparison of Ragin's fsQCA and fuzzy cluster analysis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 14(1), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2010.483079

The paper undertakes a comparison of Ragin's fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis with cluster analysis. After describing key features of both methods, it uses a simple invented example to illustrate an important algorithmic difference in the w... Read More about Using case-based approaches to analyse large datasets: a comparison of Ragin's fsQCA and fuzzy cluster analysis.

Selecting cases for in-depth study from a survey dataset: an application of Ragin's configurational methods (2011)
Journal Article
Glaesser, J., & Cooper, B. (2011). Selecting cases for in-depth study from a survey dataset: an application of Ragin's configurational methods. Methodological innovations on line, 6(2), 52-70. https://doi.org/10.4256/10.4256/mio.2010.0035

While ‘establishing the phenomena’, to use Merton’s phrase, is an important part of the sociological enterprise, in then accounting for such empirical regularities, theoretical models are required to understand causal processes. Both regression analy... Read More about Selecting cases for in-depth study from a survey dataset: an application of Ragin's configurational methods.

Introduction to the Special Issue: Case-Based Approaches to the Analysis of Quantitative Data (2011)
Journal Article
Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2011). Introduction to the Special Issue: Case-Based Approaches to the Analysis of Quantitative Data. Methodological innovations on line, 6(2), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0032

Within the social sciences generally, the conventional approach to the analysis of survey data remains variable-based, employing some member of the regression family. Such methods address the effect of one or more supposedly “independent” variables o... Read More about Introduction to the Special Issue: Case-Based Approaches to the Analysis of Quantitative Data.