Charles C. Ragin

Charles C. Ragin (born c. 1952) is Chancellor's Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

Born c. 1952, Ragin graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in May 1972.

He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at age 22 in 1975.

He is also the author of more than 100 articles in research journals and edited books, and he has developed software packages for set theory analyses of social data, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA).

[1] He has conducted academic workshops on methodology in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and for diverse audiences in the United States.