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ANALYSIS analog - protolog analysis comparing configural analysis figure-ground frame instructure paradigmatic plane scaffolding   Complete Term List

 

Dictionary Definition from Wordnet

1. (47) analysis -- (an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole) 2. (5) analysis, analytic thinking -- (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

 

 

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Working Definition:

Analysis is a systematic mode of comparison in which the structure & its component parts of a source is matched to the structure and components of a target or targets to reveal similarities and differences.

[Note: There are other forms of analysis but configural analysis, the type featured in the C-CS site, is comparative.]

Disciplinary Definitions:

"Analytic induction is a technique used primarily by qualitative researchers to access commonalities across a number of cases and thereby clarify empirical categories and the concepts that are exemplified by the cases included in a category. It is a "double fitting' of ideas and evidence that focuses on similarities across a limited number of cases studied in depth. (Ragin, The Comparative Method, 1994, 183)

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