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1. AMENTA, Edwin, Bruce G. CARRUTHERS, and Yvonne ZYLAN. "A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy." American Journal of Sociology 98.2 (1992): 308-39.
Abstract: During the Depression, the Townsend movement enjoyed varied success in seeking pensions for the aged. Social-movement models predict that success depends on the mobilization of resources or on collective action. Other theories predict that economic or political conditions cause the emergence of movements and changes in public spending. The political mediation model used here holds that, to succeed, a movement must reinforce political action with strong organization of members under favorable political conditions. This article defines "success" and employs various analytical and empirical strategies, including qualitative comparative analysis on state-level data, to appraise the models. Although each perspective has some support, the political mediation model offers the best explanation of the patterns of successes. The state and the political party system determine whether mobilization and action benefit a constituency and win acceptance for a movement organization.

2. BERNARD, H. Russell, and Gery RYAN. "Qualitative and Quantitative Methods of Text Analysis." Hand-Book of Method in Cultural Anthropology. ed. H. Russell BERNARD. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Books, 1998. ?? online at : http://nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu/~ufruss/txtana.html.

3. CHOMPALOV, Ivan Michailov. "Multi-Institutional Collaborations in Science: Structure, Types, and Outcomes.". Louisiana State University, 1998.
Abstract: The advent of modern 'big science' brings about a new kind of research formation: multi-institutional collaborations involving teams of researchers from several organizations. Despite their recent proliferation and visibility, no general classification of these 'virtual organizations' exists. This study adopts a macrosociological, comparative perspective to develop a variety of classification schemes that capture the systematic variation of interorganizational collaborations in science along basic structural dimensions and to examine the relationships of these classifications with important sociological outcomes. Qualitative, historical analysis of collaborations in high-energy physics, space science, and geophysics showed that, when we set aside field-specific differences, seven general dimensions emerge as fundamental in describing the structural variety of collaborations in science: project formation, magnitude, organization and management, interdependence, participation, communication, and technological practice. Cluster analysis was then employed using interview data from 23 recent collaborations in five new areas of physics and allied sciences to build classification schemes along these structural dimensions. Next, analysis of variance models and qualitative comparative analysis were used to explore how the classifications relate to valued sociological outcomes such as success, trust, conflict, stress, and documentary routines. The empirical results strongly supported the central argument that a typology based on a broad conception of technological practice is superior to others in its ability to predict the patterned consequences of multi-institutional collaborations in science. In fact, it is the only clustering that is capable of explaining perceived success, trust, and stress. The major findings of the dissertation research suggest that it is necessary to move away from the narrow focus on the laboratory and the disciplinary organization of R&D in order to capture the structure.

4. CLIFFORD, Elizabeth, and Brian GRAN. "Immigrant Flows: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Economic, Demographic and Political Influences." American Sociological Association (ASA) Meeting, Panel on "Comparative Studies of International Migration in the World System": 2000.

5. Cooper, Catherine R., et al. 2002.

6. COVERDILL, James E., and William FINLAY. "Understanding Mills Via Mill-Type Methods : an Application of Qualitative Comparative Analysis to a Study of Labor Management in Southern Textile Manufacturing." Qualitative Sociology 18.4 (1995): 457-78.

7. COVERDILL, James E., William FINLAY, and Jack K. MARTIN. "Labor Management in the Southern Textile Industry : Comparing Qualitative, Quantitative, and Qualitative Comparative Analyses." Sociological Methods and Research 23.1 (1994): 54-85.

8. CRESS, D., and D. SNOW. "The Outcome of Homeless Mobilization: the Influence of Organization, Disruption, Political Mediation, and Framing." American Journal of Sociology 105.4 (2000): 1063-104.

9. DIERKES, Julian B. "Teaching Portrayals of the Nation - Postwar History Education in the Germanys and Japan.". Princeton University, 2001.
Abstract: My dissertation will examine the postwar construction of national identity in the educational arena in Japan and the Germanys. Data gathered from secondary school history textbooks and curricula will allow me to classify and compare the portrayal of the nation in the three states over the postwar period. Data on the decision-making processes that lead to particular emphases in textbooks and curricula will help me in developing an organizational model of the content of national identity as it is to be taught in the school. Boolean algebra will aid me in selecting causally important factors for the comparative analysis. The analysis will show that institutionalized conceptions of the nation as well as the institutional configuration of actors involved in educational policy decision-making are associated with a number of alternative substantive outcomes. The dissertation will advance the understanding of the role of actors in institutional political sociology and will advance this approach by applying it to a new subfield and new historical cases. The dissertation will also develop methodological tools for the applicability of Boolean algebra to longitudinal comparisons.

10. DIXON, Marc, Vincent J. ROSCIGNO, and Randy HODSON. "Unions, Solidarity, and Striking." Social Forces 83.1 (2004): 3-33.
Abstract: Organizational resources and group solidarity are central foci in literature on social movements generally and worker insurgency specifically. Research, however, seldom deals with both simultaneously and their potential interrelations. In this article, we examine the complex relationships between union organization and worker solidarity relative to strike action. We draw on a data set of 133 content-coded workplace ethnographies and use a combination of qualitative comparative analysis and more standard statistical techniques. Consistent with expectations, results suggest union presence and
worker solidarity, in and of themselves, have little meaningful association with strikes. Rather, it is their co-presence that bolsters strike likelihood. Conversely, a lack of union presence in combination with a lack of collective mobilization history diminishes overall strike potential. We conclude by discussing the implications of our argument and findings for more general social movement perspectives as well as prior work dealing specifically with unions, solidarity, and collective resistance.

11. EBBINGHAUS, Bernhard, and Jelle VISSER. "When Institutions Matter: Union Growth and Decline in Western Europe, 1950-95." MZES Arbeitspapiere / Working Papers .I/30 (1998): 1-37.
Abstract: During the early post-war period, Western trade union movements grew in membership and achieved an institutionalized role in industrial relations and politics. However, during the last decades, many trade unions have seen their membership decline as they came increasingly under pressures due to the social, economic and political changes. This article reviews the main structural, cyclical and institu-tional factors explaining union growth and decline. Concentrating on Western Europe, the empirical analysis compares cross-national union density data for 13 countries over the first period (1950-75) and for 16 countries over the second, "crisis" period (1975-95). The quantitative correlation and re-gression analysis indicates that structural and cyclical factors fail explain the level and changes in unionization across Western Europe, while institutional variables fare better. In a second, qualitative comparative analysis, the authors stress the need to explain cross-national differences in the level or trend of unionization by a set of institutional arrangements: the access of unions to representation in the workplace, the availability of a selective incentive in the form of a union-administered unemploy-ment scheme, recognition of employers through nation-wide and sectoral corporatist institutions, and closed shop arrangements for forced membership. Such institutional configurations support member-ship recruitment and membership retention, and define the conditions for the strategic choice of trade unions in responding to structural social-economic, political and cultural changes.

12. FOWERAKER, J., and Todd LANDMAN. Citizenship Rights and Social Movements: a Comparative and Statistical Enquiry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

13. GOODWIN, Jeff. "The Limits of Repression: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Counterinsurgency." Conference on "Mobilization and Repression: What We Know and Where We Should Go From Here?": 2001.

14. GRAN, Brian, et al. "Explaining Children's Rights: An International Analysis of the Children's Rights Index." 2004 Annual Meeting of Research Committee 19: 2004.

15. GRIFFIN, Larry J., et al. "Theoretical Generality, Case Particularity: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Union Growth and Decline." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 32 (1991): 110-36.

16. ---. "Theoretical Generality, Case Particularity : Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Trade Union Growth and Decline." Issues and Alternatives in Comparative Social Research. ed. Charles C. RAGIN. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. 110-36.

17. HAWORTH-HOEPPNER, S. "The Critical Shapes of Body Image: The Role of Culture and Family in the Production of Eating Disorders." Journal of Marriage and the Family 62.1 (2000): 212-27.
Abstract: Although research has pointed to the influence of culture and family in the etiology of earing disorders, few, studies have examined how these influences conjoin in this process. This research explores how the family mediates cultural ideas about thinness and how the family conveys these messages to family members. Using a grounded theory approach, open-ended interviews were conducted with 32 White, middle-class women (with and without eating disorders) on the topic of body image and eating problems. In conjunction with this method, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) was also performed to identify family characteristics, and their specific combinations, that were associated with eating disorders. The findings indicate that a critical family environment, coercive parental control, and a dominating discourse on weight in the household are salient conditions, and their specific configurations are discussed in relationship to current theoretical conceptualizations regarding the influences of culture and family in the production of eating disorders.

18. HELLSTRÖM, Eeva. Conflict Cultures. Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Environmental Conflicts in Forestry. Silva Fennica Monographs 2. Helsinki: The Finnish Society of Forest Science / The Finnish Forest Research Institute, 2001.
Abstract: This research compares environmental conflicts in forestry in seven cases during 1984-1995. The cases include Finland, France, Minnesota USA, Norway, Pacific Northwest USA, Sweden and West Germany. The research is based on the notion that each society has its own ‘cultural’ ways of producing and managing environmental conflicts in forestry, depending on the social, political, economic, and resource characteristics of the society. The purpose of the study is to describe these conflict cultures, to identify and analyse the societal aspects that impact them, and to discuss the implications of understanding conflicts as cultural phenomena. The research is based on focused interviews of multiple actors related to forest management and protection. For the data analysis, a ‘hermeneutic’ (interpretative and understanding) approach is introduced to Qualitative Comparative Analysis, the use of which has been dominated by causal applications. As a result of the analysis, models of conflict cultures and conflict management strategies are constructed. The model of conflict cultures indicates three basic dimensions of conflict culture, and defines how they are related to each other. These dimensions are mild vs. intense conflicts, separatist vs. co-operative relations between actors and stability vs. change in forest resource policy and use. The model of conflict management strategies indicates to what extent the different cases place emphasis on interactive vs. institutional conflict management, and the management of conflicting (sub)cultures within the society vs. the conflict culture of the society.

19. ---. "Environmental Forestry Conflicts, Forest Policies and the Use of Forest Resources - Recent Developments in USA, Germany, France, Sweden, Finland and Norway." European Forest Institute Working Paper (Joensuu, Finland) .7 (1996): 1-72.

20. ---. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Useful Tool for Research into Forest Policy and Forestry Conflicts." Forest Science 44.2 (1998): 254-65.

21. HELLSTRÖM, Eeva, and Kati RANTALA. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis. Opening New Paths for Social Research in Forestry." 21st IUFRO World Congress, Technical Session "Interface Between Forest Science and Policy Making": 2000.

22. HICKS, Alexander M. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction : the Case of the Emergence of the Social Security State." Sociological Methods and Research 23.1 (1994): 86-113 .

23. HICKS, Alexander M., Joy MISRA, and Nah Ng TANG. "The Programmatic Emergence of the Social Security State." American Sociological Review 60.3 (1995): 329-50.

24. HODSON, Randy. "A Meta-Analysis of Workplace Ethnographies - Race, Gender, and Employee Attitudes and Behaviors." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 33.1 (2004): 4-38.
Abstract: Workplace ethnographies suggest many hypotheses about the effects of organizational characteristics on employee attitudes and behaviors. These hypotheses, however, are difficult to evaluate by considering each ethnography individually. The current article uses qualitative comparative analysis of content-coded data from the full population ofworkplace ethnographies to provide a fuller evaluation of the lessons these ethnographies have to offer The hypothesis that women are happy and quiescent workers receives only limited support. Women actually evidence less satisfaction and pride in their work than men, but they are more cooperative and less conflictual than men. Autonomy is the most consistent determinant of positive workplace attitudes, a finding that is consistent with survey-based research. These findings thus both confirm and condition prior conclusions about the workplace and suggest the importance of systematically compiling the findings of workplace ethnographies to evaluate and benchmark conclusions based on ethnographic analysis.

25. HODSON, Randy, and Vincent J. ROSCIGNO. "Organizational Success and Worker Dignity : Complementary or Contradictory ?" American Journal of Sociology 110.3 (2004): 672-708.

26. HUBER, Evelyne, Charles C. RAGIN, and John D. STEPHENS. "Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State." American Journal of Sociology 99.3 (1993): 711-49.

27. IDIART, Alma. "Stable Democracies in Latin America? Advancing Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens's Analysis for the Latin American Cases ." Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting: 1998.
Abstract: This paper attempts to further Rueschemeyer, Stephens, and Stephens's (1992) comparative historical analysis of democratization and theory building for their Latin American cases by using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) as a technique for the implementation of analytical induction (Hicks 1994). For early waves of democratization two paths are identified. One is defined by (moderate) non-mining export sectors aided by clientelistic parties. The other is constituted by the same sectoral configuration aided by elite contestation. For latter waves, three alternative configurations are defined. For all these three configurations, given the presence of political parties during the second democratic period the combination of two of the following three factors allows for second wave stable democracies: 1) the absence of industrialization preceding democratization processes; 2) the presence of strong mechanisms of elite contestation (under the form of electoral contestation); and 3) the antecedent of previously stable democracies.

28. ISHIDA, Atsushi, Miya YONETANI, and Kenji KOSAKA. "Determinants of Linguistic Human Rights Movements: An Analysis of Multiple Causation of LHRs Movements Using a Boolean Approach." Social Forces 84.4 (2006): 1937-55.
Abstract: We examine the social background of movements for linguistic human rights by way of QCA analysis. Linguistic human rights have been a focus of interests widely among scholars, but no sustained effort was done to see determinants of the social background of movements for the rights. We chose candidate factors such as diversity of languages within a country, literacy rate, population size, national income as an index of affluence, and existence of constitution supporting the rights to explain the occurrence of social movements. We collected and created data in proper form for 157 countries in the world, which was subject to QCA analysis. Our conclusion is that the economic affluence and perhaps the educational level play greater roles for linguistic minority people to assert their human rights. An explicit formula will be shown and discussed in the main text.

29. JANOSKI, Thomas, and Alexander M. HICKS, eds. The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

30. KANGAS, Ollie. "The Politics of Social Security : on Regressions, Qualitative Comparisons, and Cluster Analysis." The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State. eds Thomas JANOSKI and Alexander M. HICKS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 346-64.

31. KANOMATA, Nobuo. "Saibankan no Keireki: Kojin Deita heno Ouyou [Career of Judges: Application [of QCA] to Personal Data]." Shituteki Hikaku Bunseki [Qualitative Comparative Analysis]. eds Nobuo KANOMATA, Daishiro NOMIYA, and Keiji HASEGAWA. Kyoto: Mineruva Syobo, 2001. 63-78.

32. KITTEL, Bernhard. "Causes of Bargaining Trends in Industrial Relations: the Impact of Structural, Cyclical, and Political Factors in a Comparative Perspective." Conflicts and Consensus. Pluralism and Neocorporatism in New and Old Democracies at the Region. eds Samo KROPIVNIC, Igor LUKSIC, and Drago ZAJC. Ljubljana: Slovenian Political Science Association, 1997. 225-52.

33. KITTEL, Bernhard, Herbert OBINGER, and Uwe WAGSCHAL. "Wohlfahrtsstaaten im internationalen Vergleich. Politisch-institutionelle Faktoren der Entstehung und Entwicklungsdynamik." Der “gezügelte” Wohlfahrtsstaat: Sozialpolitik in Australien, Japan, Schweiz, Kanada, Neuseeland und den Vereinigten Staaten. eds Herbert OBINGER and Uwe WAGSCHAL. Frankfurt/M: Campus Verlag, 2000. 329-64.

34. LOBE, Bojana. "Mixing Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in the Environment of New Information-Communication Technologies.". University of Ljubljana, 2006.

35. LOBE, Bojana, and Benoît RIHOUX. "The Added Value of Micro-Level QCA: Getting More Out of Rich Case
Knowledge.", 2007.

36. LUOMA, Pentti. "The Social Sustainability of the Community Structures: the Case of the Oulu Region in the North of Finland." ESF Exploratory Workshop on "Innovative Comparative Methods for Policy Analysis. And Interdisciplinary European Endeavour for Methodological Advances and Improved Policy Analysis/Evaluation": 2004.

37. MARX, Axel. "Discovering Actionable Knowledge: Systematic Comparative Case Analysis in Management Research (Slides of Presentation)." International Colloquium on Analyzing Strategic Change in Organizations: Innovative Methods for Management: 2004.

38. MARX, Axel, and Jan DOMBRECHT. "COMPASSS Working Paper 2004-25: The Organisational Antecedents of Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Systematic Comparative Case Analysis of Assembly, Sorting and Packaging Jobs.", 2004.
Abstract: The paper presents a specific research-design – systematic comparative case analysis - to analyse the impact of organisational characteristics on individual level outcomes. A systematic comparative case analysis consists of an across case and within case analysis of a limited set of comparable cases. Across case analysis or Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) aims to identify similarities and differences between configurations of explanatory variables. Within case analysis aims to identify the causal mechanisms which link configurations to outcomes. Systematic comparative case analysis is applied to a research question on the organisational antecedents of repetitive strain injuries of the wrist in highly repetitive, non-fragmented and simple jobs. In total, 16 cases (each consisting on average of 15 workers) were analysed.

39. ---. "The Organisational Antecedents of Repetitive Strain Injuries: A Systematic Comparative Case Analysis of Assembly, Sorting and Packaging Jobs.", 2004.
Abstract: The paper presents a specific research-design – systematic comparative case analysis - to analyse the impact of organisational characteristics on individual level outcomes. A systematic comparative case analysis consists of an across case and within case analysis of a limited set of comparable cases. Across case analysis or Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) aims to identify similarities and differences between configurations of explanatory variables. Within case analysis aims to identify the causal mechanisms which link configurations to outcomes. Systematic comparative case analysis is applied to a research question on the organisational antecedents of repetitive strain injuries of the wrist in highly repetitive, non-fragmented and simple jobs. In total, 16 cases (each consisting on average of 15 workers) were analysed.

40. MASON, George P. "The Part-Time Sociology Instructor and the "Trap" of Adjunct Faculty Positions: an Investigation into the Differences Faced by Part-Time Instructors on Both Sides of the Ambassador Bridge." Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association 35th Annual Meeting: 2000.

41. MISUMI, Kazuto. "A Boolean Model of Role Discrimination." Journal of Mathematical Sociology 26.1-2 (2002): 111-21.
Abstract: This paper analyzes, based on Boolean approach by C.C.Ragin, how the subjective internal structures of social roles condition the possibility of role discrimination. I postulate, in an individualfs image, a role consists of some role elements, which construct an internal hierarchical structure (role image) depending on each elementfs contribution to the role discrimination as a whole. Then the role discrimination is formulated as a Boolean equation, taking the role elements as independent variables and the role discrimination itself as a dependent variable. Suppose a role X, and a performer who has image Xf and an observer who has image Xh communicate ea ch other. In general, between such two given actors, X can be discriminated by an observer under the condition that XfXh equals to Xh, or at least th at XfXh and Xh share one or more Boolean products; however, X is never di scriminated otherwise. At first, I take a simple case of two elements and examine the possibility of role discrimination for all possible combinations of images. After that, some general propositions as to the possibility of role discrimination, that hold regardless of the number of role elements, are derived.

42. ---. "Two Levels of Dyscommunication: an Analysis by Boolean Role Model
." 4th Conference of the Asia Pacific Sociological Association: Asia Pacific Sociological Association, 2000.
Abstract: This paper analyzes, based on Boolean model of social role, how the subjective internal structures of roles condition the dyscommunication between actors. We postulate that a role consists of some role elements in an individual¹s image. Suppose a role X, and also suppose a performer who has image X¹ and an observer who has image X². In general, X can be discriminated by an observer under the condition that X¹X² equals to X², or at least that X¹X² and X² share one or more Boolean sum of products. The first order dyscommunication occurs when one or more role elements are not shared between subgroups of actors. Taking a simple model of two elements, we examine the cases in which this type of dyscommunication occurs. Even if each subgroup enrolls the different elements in the definition of role X respectively, actors might be confronted with the second order dyscommunication. Being a set of role elements commonly shared among actors does not mean everyone have same type of image; so that, the condition mentioned above may not be satisfied in some combinations between types. We examine such cases based on the extended three elements¹ model. An implied situation of this study is intercultural communication, as well as international marriage increasing in rural area of Japan.

43. MISUMI, Kazuto. "Two Levels of Dyscommunication: an Analysis by Boolean Role Model
." Sociological Theory and Methods 16.2 (2001): 229-43.

44. MISUMI, Kazuto. "Yakuwari Riron Moderu [A Model of Role Theory]." Shituteki Hikaku Bunseki [Qualitative Comparative Analysis]. eds Nobuo KANOMATA, Daishiro NOMIYA, and Keiji HASEGAWA. Kyoto: Mineruva Syobo, 2001.

45. MORALES DIEZ DE ULZURRUN, Laura. "Membership in Political Groups in Western Countries.", 1998.

46. NOMIYA, Daishiro. "Minsyuu no Hanran to Shakai Hendou: Rekishiteki Deita heno Ouyou [Peasants' Rebellion and Social Change: Application [of QCA] to Historical Data]." Shituteki Hikaku Bunseki [Qualitative Comparative Analysis]. eds Nobuo KANOMATA, Daishiro NOMIYA, and Keiji HASEGAWA. Kyoto: Mineruva Syobo, 2001. 79-94.

47. OSA, Maryjane Osa, and Cristina CORDUNEANU-HUCI. "Political Opportunity in Non-Democracies: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis." ASA CBSM Sessions: 2001.

48. RAGIN, Charles C. "The Logic of the Comparative Method and the Algebra of Logic." Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 1.2 (1989): 373-98.

49. RAGIN, Charles C., and York W. BRADSHAW. "Statistical Analysis of Employment Discrimination : a Review and a Critique." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 10 (1991): 199-228.

50. RAGIN, Charles C., and Jeremy HEIN. "The Comparative Study of Ethnicity : Methodological and Conceptual." Race and Ethnicity in Research Methods. eds John H. STANFIELD and Dennis M. RUTLEDGE. London: Sage Publications, 1993. 254-72.

51. RANTALA, Kati. "Art As Communicative Practice for Teenagers." YOUNG - Nordic Journal of Youth Research 6.4 (1998).

52. RANTALA, Kati, and Eeva HELLSTRÖM. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis - a Hermeneutic Approach to Interview Data." International Journal of Social Research Methodology 4.2 (2001): 87-100.

53. RANTALA, Kati, and Eeva HELLSTRÖM. "Qualitative Comparative Analysis and a Hermeneutic Approach to Interview Data." Fourth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Session ‘The Computerized Analysis of Textual Records’: 1998.

54. RAYANE, Laurence, and Sylvie SCHEMAN. "Etude de l'article:"Children's First Names: An Empirical Study of Social Taste" de Stanley Lieberson et Eleanor O. Bell.", 2002.

55. RIHOUX, Benoît. Les partis politiques : organisations en changement. Le test des écologistes. Coll. Logiques Politiques. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001.

56. ---. "La transformation de l'organisation des partis écologistes en Europe Occidentale. Contribution à une théorie du changement partisan.". Université catholique de Louvain, 1999.

57. ROMAIN, Patrick. "A QCA Analysis of the Influence of “Socio-Pedagogical” Variables on “Value Transmission” by Mathematics Teachers in Belgian French-Speaking High Schools." 2nd ECPR General Conference, Section "Methodological Advances in Comparative Research : Concepts, Techniques, Applications", Panel "QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) in Comparative Research: Applications": 2003.
Abstract: Mathematics courses are not only concerned with the transmission of mathematical knowledge. Teachers value certain aspects of this knowledge, rather than some others. For example, some will insist on abilities like abstracting, conducting a logical reasoning, working intensively, …, or on attitudes like precision, rigor, care.
This paper will explore how socio-pedagogical variables favor the teacher broadcasting some of these “values”. Various conditions may be taken into account. Some are internal to the teacher: he is motivated; he has a long experience in mathematics teaching. Others are external: pupils are disciplined; their families are comfortably off; the curriculum is more or less intensive in mathematics. Our cases will be a small number (~12) of high school teachers in Belgium (year 2002-2003). We carry out a range of QCA analyses, involving given sets of condition variables and several result (dependant) variables related to different aspects of the values transmission.

58. ROSCIGNO, Vincent J., and Randy HODSON. "The Organizational and Social Foundations of Worker Resistance." American Sociological Review 69 (2004): 14-39.

59. RUDEL, Thomas K. Tropical Forests. Regional Paths of Destruction and Regeneration in the Late Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

60. SCHRUM, Wesley, and Ivan CHOMPALOV. "A Typology of Multi-Institutional Collaborations in Science." History of Science Society Annual Meeting: 1998.
Abstract: The paper presents an attempt at constructing a typology of multi-institutional collaborations in science, focusing on such arrangements in the physical sciences. It examines the sociological aspects of the emergence, development, and relative success of cooperative arrangements that involve three or more organizations. Data from a long-term study of multi-institutional collaborations are used to typologize inter-organization formations in high-energy physics, space science, geophysics, ground-based astronomy, and a variety of other research fields. Using cluster analysis and qualitative comparative analysis, collaborative projects are characterized along several dimensions: magnitude, composition, organization, centralization and power, participation, communication patterns, inter personal and professional relations, data acquisition, and archival practices.

61. SCHWEIZER, Thomas. "Actor and Event Orderings Across Time: Lattice Representation and Boolean Analysis of the Political Disputes in Chen Village, China." Social Networks 18 (1996): 247-66.

62. ---. "The Power Struggle in a Chinese Community, 1950­1980: A Social Network Analysis of the Duality of Actors and Events." Journal of Quantitative Anthropology 3 (1991): 19-44.

63. SMILDE, David. "Who Commits? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Pentecostal Conversion in Caracas." Lecture at University of Notre Dame History Department: 2001.

64. ---. "Works of the Flesh, Fruit of the Spirit: Religious Action Frames and Meaning Networks in Venezuelan Evangelicalism.". University of Chicago, 2000.
Abstract: There are two recurring problems in the literature on Latin American Evangelicalism. First, conversion is explained using a form of functionalist explanation from results that both is not supported by contemporary cultural theory and cannot adequately distinguish those who convert from those who do not. Second, the political engagement of Latin American Evangelicals has been seen as paradoxical and contradictory with some scholars arguing that no consistent tendency can be discerned. This dissertation uses concepts from the sociology of culture and social movements theory to work through data from participant observation with Venezuelan Evangelicals, as well as eighty-four life history interviews with Evangelical and non-Evangelical men. The life history interviews with Evangelical men reveal that indeed they largely converted as a means to overcome pressing problems with substance abuse, violence and conjugal relationships. Evangelicalism functions as “religious action frame” that orients and motivates action that can overcome these problems. The data also reveal that men convert in pursuit of these positive consequences. Existing theories of religion rely on a realist theory of meaning that makes understanding such agency difficult. Since only objectively valid beliefs can be used to bring about desired consequences, such agency in religion has to be presented as knowledgeable cynicism, unintelligent fluke, or as a process that works behind the actors’ backs. I suggest a pragmatic theory of meaning in which beliefs that are not objectively valid in scientific terms can be held and used by actors who only care about evidence of their practical effect.
I use Boolean algebra (Charles Ragin’s “qualitative comparative analysis”) to compare cases of commitment with cases of non-commitment. The analysis demonstrates that living with an Evangelical is a sufficient cause of commitment. However, the numerically most important causal combination is that of having serious life problems while not living with family of origin. These conclusions underline the importance of meaning networks. Having problems is important in most cases of commitment. But having the opportunity to commit depends on being independent from family of origin networks that reinforce traditional meanings, and or being in contact with Evangelical networks through which meaning innovation can flow.
Conceiving of Evangelicalism as a frame containing an abstract symbolization of supernatural agency at its center, but which does not necessarily contain lower-level schemas consistently applying this symbolization to all areas of life, can help us understand the variability in Evangelical politics. While in areas of experience having to do with personal morality and the family the Evangelical frame contains well articulated, lower-level schemas that apply the abstract symbolization of supernatural agency to concrete situations in consistent ways, in areas given less importance such as politics, there are no well-articulated lower level schemas and individual variation is the norm. However, when Evangelical morality or interests are either openly embraced or openly threatened by a political option, Evangelical leaders can actively mobilize their followers by presenting well-articulated lower-level schemas containing the “correct” application of the abstract symbolization of supernatural agency. In these cases Evangelicalism can have an independent causal impact on political processes.

65. SMOLLENAARS, Ellie. Plusminus vijfenzestig. De sociale diversiteit van pensionleeftijden en 'ouderdom'. Rotterdam: Lemma, 1999.

66. Smollenaars, Ellie. Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). 2000. Web Page.
Abstract: Fragments from E. Smollenaar's book (2001 : 90-98).

67. SONNETT, John. "Musical Boundaries: Intersections of Form and Content." Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts 32.3-4 (2004): 247-64.
Abstract: Musical boundaries mark distinctions between what is valued and what is shunned
among cultural objects. One prominent line of research on musical boundaries
investigates variations of inclusiveness and exclusiveness ? identifying
cultural omnivores and univores ? but has not fully considered the role of
ambivalence toward genres that are neither liked nor disliked categorically.
Another line of research deepens our understanding of the rhetorics,
discourses, and cultural schemas organizing boundary work, but it has yet to
map the combinatorial logic through which specific taste evaluations are made.
In this study, I bridge research on boundary forms and organizing principles
through a comparative and relational approach, combining Qualitative
Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Correspondence Analysis (CA) to analyze musical
tastes in the U.S. Results confirm the general associations of highbrows and
omnivores, lowbrows and univores, but they also show a diversity of musical
boundary configurations: the largest group of omnivores do not exclude lowbrow
musics; a significant subset of univores are highbrows; and those with
indecisive or ambivalent boundaries favor popular music. I conclude by noting
that the musical taste structure is shaped more like a parabola than a pyramid
and by proposing future directions for integrating qualitative and quantitative
cultural sociology.

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76. YONETANI, Miya, Atsushi ISHIDA, and Kenji KOSAKA. "Determinants of Linguistic Human Rights Movement." 2nd ECPR General Conference, Section "Methodological Advances in Comparative Research : Concepts, Techniques, Applications", Panel "QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) in Comparative Research: Applications": 2003.
Abstract: We examine the social background of movements for linguistic human rights by way of QCA analysis. Linguistic human rights have been a focus of interests widely among scholars, but no sustained effort was done to see determinants of the social background of movements for the rights. We chose candidate factors such as diversity of languages within a country, literacy rate, population size, national income as an index of affluence, and existence of constitution supporting the rights to explain the occurrence of social movements. We collected and created data in proper form for 157 countries in the world, which was subject to QCA analysis. Our conclusion is that the economic affluence and perhaps the educational level play greater roles for linguistic minority people to assert their human rights. An explicit formula will be shown and discussed in the main text.

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