References - general
Books
Bateson N. (1984) Data Construction in Social Surveys. Allen and Unwin: London. Please note: this book is now out of print but should still be available in most university libraries
Bauer M. W. and Gaskell G. (2000) Qualitative Researching With Text, Image and Sound. London : Sage.
Bowker G.C. and Star, S.C. (1999) Sorting Things Out: classification and its consequences. Cambridge MA: MIT Press
Blaikie N.W.H. (2003) Analysing Quantitative Data : from description to explanation. London: Sage
Blaikie N. (2000) Designing Social Research. Cambridge: Polity Press
Blalock H. M. (1964) Causal Inferences in Nonexperimental Research. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
Blalock H. (1972) Causal Models in the social sciences. London: Macmillan
Byrne D.S. (1998) Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: an Introduction. London: Routledge
Byrne D.S. (2002) Interpreting Quantitative Data. London: Sage
Byrne D.S. and Ragin C.C. (2009) The SAGE Handbook of Case-Based Methods. Sage Publications
Carter R. and New C. (2004) Making Realism Work: Realist Social Theory and Empirical Research. London: Routledge
Cilliers P. (1998) Complexity and Postmodernism: understanding complex systems. London: Routledge
Creswell J.W. (2003) Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed-Methods Approaches . London: Sage
Desrosières A. (1998) The Politics of Large Numbers: a history of statistical reasoning. Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press
Fielding N. and Lee R.M. (1998) Computer Analysis and Qualitative Research. London: Sage
Flyvbjerg B. (2001) Making social science matter : why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again . Cambridge University Press
King G., Keohane R.O., and Verba S. (1994) Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research. Princeton University Press
Lakoff G. and Johnson M. (1980) Metaphors We Live. By Chicago London: University of Chicago Press
Lakoff G. and Johnson M. (1999) Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenges to Western thought. New York: Basic Books
Lewins A. and Silver C. (2007) Using Software in Qualitative Research: A Step-by-Step Guide . London: Sage
Mikkelsen B. (1995) Methods for Development Work and Research: A Guide for Practitioners. London: Sage
Pawson R. and Tilley, N. (1997) Realistic Evaluation. London: Sage
Pink S. (2007) Doing Visual Ethnography . London: Sage
Ragin C.C. (1987) The Comparative Method. M oving beyond qualitative and quantitative strategies. Berkeley: University of California Press
Ragin C.C. (1994) Constructing social research: the unity and diversity of method . Thousand Oaks, CA; London, Pine Forge Press Sage.
Ragin C.C. (2000) Fuzzy Set Social Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
Ragin C.C. (2008) Redesigning Social Inquiry: Fuzzy Sets and Beyond. University of Chicago Press
Ragin C.C. and Becker, H. (1992) What is a Case? Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Sayer A. (1999) Realism and Social Science. London: Sage
Sayer A. (2005) The Moral Significance of Class. Cambridge University Press.
Wetherall M., Taylor S. and Yates, S. (2001) Discourse as Data: A guide for analysis. London: Sage
Yin R.K. (2002) Case Study Research: Design and Methods. 3rd ed., London: Sage
Articles / Chapters
Bradley E.H., Curry L.A. and Devers K.J. (2007) Qualitative data analysis for health services research: developing taxonomy, themes, and theory. Health Services Research 2007 42(4): 1758-1772
Byrne D.S. (2005) Complexity, configurations and cases. Theory Culture and Society 22 (5): 95-111
Byrne D. S. (2006) Class, Culture and Identity: A reflection on absences against presences. Sociology 39: 807-816.
Coverdill J.E., Finlay W. and Martin J.K. (1994) Labor Management in the Southern Textile Industry. Sociological Methods and Research 23: 54-85
Flick U. (1992) Triangulation Revisited: Strategy of Validation or Alternative? Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 22 (2): 169-197.
Knox K. (2004) A Researcher's Dilemma - Philosophical and Methodological Pluralism. Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods, 2 (2): 119-128 http://www.ejbrm.com/vol2/v2-i2/vol2-issue2-art7-knox.pdf
Kogut B. and Ragin C. ( 2006) Exploring complexity when diversity is limited: institutional complementarity in theories of rule of law and national systems revisited. European Management Review 3(1): 44-59.
Olsen W.K. and J. Morgan (2005) A critical epistemology of analytical statistics: Addressing the sceptical realist. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour , 35(3): 255-284
Ragin C.C. (1997) Turning the Tables: how case-oriented methods challenge variable oriented methods . Comparative Social Research 16 : 27-42
Ragin C.C. ( 2005) Case-oriented research and the study of social action. Pp. 91-102 in Norbert Kersting and Lass Cronqvist (eds.), Democratization and Political Culture in Comparative Perspective . Wiesbaden: VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften
Ragin C.C. ( 2006) How to lure analytic social science out of the doldrums: some lessons from comparative research. International Sociology 21(5): 633-646
Ragin C.C. ( 2007) Comparative methods. Pp. 67-81 in Stephen Turner and William Outhwaite (eds.), Handbook of Social Science Methodology . Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage
Ragin C.C., Berg-Schlosser D. and De Meur G. (1996). Political methodology: qualitative methods. In R. E. Goodin, & H.-D. Klingemann (eds) A New Handbook of Political S cience pp. 749-768 Oxford University Press.
Ragin C.C. and Rubinson C. ( 2009) The distinctiveness of comparative research. In Todd Landman and Neil Robinson (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Comparative Politics. London: Sage.
Reed K. (1997) Orientations to work: the cultural conditioning of motivation." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology 33 (3): 364-386
Rubinson C.C. and Ragin C. ( 2007) New methods for comparative research? Comparative Social Research 24: 373-390
Useful websites
Ragin C. C, Nagel J. and White P. ( 2004) Scientific foundations of qualitative research. National Science Foundation. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2004/nsf04219/start.htm