e/Analytic induction

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has gloss	eng: Analytic induction refers to a systematic examination of similarities between various social phenomena in order to develop concepts or ideas. Social scientists doing social research use analytic induction to search for those similarities in broad categories and then develop subcategories. For example, social scientist may examine the category of marijuana users and then develop subcategories for uses marijuana for pleasure and uses marijuana for health reasons. If no relevant similarities can be identified, then either the data needs to be reevaluated and the definition of similarities changed, or the category is too wide and heterogeneous and should be narrowed down. (Ragin 1994)
lexicalization	eng: Analytic induction
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