Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Typologies are well-established analytic tools in the social sciences.They can be "put to work" in forming concepts, refining measurement, exploring dimensionality, and organizing explanatory claims.Yet some critics, basing their arguments on what they believe are relevant norms of quantitative measurement, consider typologies old-fashioned and unsophisticated.This critique is methodologically unsound, and research based on typologies can and should proceed according to high standards of rigor and careful measurement.These standards are summarized in guidelines for careful work with typologies, and an illustrative inventory of typologies, as well as a brief glossary, are included online.
Authors: David Collier, Jody LaPorte, Jason Seawright
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1986764775