GenTIC is pleased to invite you to this seminar given by Keming Yang, Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Durham in the UK, on the use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) for intersectional analysis. The event is part of the ‘Intersectional Social Justice Seminar Series’ organised by GenTIC to explore new approaches to the intersectional analysis of quantitative data.
When: Friday, October 4, 2024
Time: 12:30 h – 13:30 h CEST
Venue: UOC’s Interdisciplinary R&I Hub (floor 0 – Rambla del Poblenou, 154 Barcelona) and online (link will be provided after registration).
Language: English
Registration: to participate, please register here.
Description
Developed initially by Charles Ragin, qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) has become a special tool for analysing multiple attributes at the same time. It draws on set theory in mathematics and sees individuals as members of different sets (or people of different categories), making it particularly appealing to the study of intersectionality. This lecture aims to introduce the basic ideas of QCA (or set-theoretic methods) and the benefits they may bring to the analysis of intersectionality, including calibration of a condition’s values (leading to crisp vs. fuzzy sets), necessary and sufficient conditions, and systematic examinations of conditions in relation to the interested outcome (truth table). Drawing on Dr Yang’s own research on loneliness (2017, 2023), these concepts and methods will be illustrated by his analysis on the data collected from the Great Britain part of the European Social Survey (ESS). In addition, Dr Yang will discuss some other important issues in using QCA, such as sampling and sample size, the impact of sampling on intersectional analysis, and the connection to causal analysis. These discussions will demonstrate that under certain conditions and used with care, QCA and set-theoretic methods in general have the potential of generating some unique insights into the analysis of intersectionality.
Speaker
Dr. Keming Yang is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of Durham in the UK. He earned his BA and MA at Nankai University (Tianjin, China) and a PhD in sociology from Columbia University (New York, USA). He used to teach at National University of Singapore and University of Reading. His research areas include economic and political sociology in the context of China, loneliness and social isolation from a sociological perspective, and social science research methods. He is the sole author of five monographs, including the most recent Analysing Intersectionality: A toolbox of methods, and has published many academic and non-academic articles in these areas.
Funded by:
This event is organized as part of the ‘Intersectional Social Justice Seminar Series‘ in the framework of the 2021 SGR 01032 project, funded by the Department of Research and Universities of the Government of Catalonia.
In collaboration with:
HORIGESTEM, Grant PID2021-123049OB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 / ERDF “A way of making Europe”.
INSPIRE, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101058537.
