• Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist? 

      Kincaid, Harold; Zahle, Julie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Agent-based models (ABMs) are increasingly important in social science research. They have two obvious apparent virtues: they can model complex macrosociological phenomena without strong assumptions about agents and without ...
    • Case Study Research in the Social Sciences 

      Ylikoski, Petri; Zahle, Julie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In this paper, we offer an introduction to case study research in the social sciences. We begin with a discussion of the definition of case study research. Next, we point to various purposes that case study research may ...
    • Limits to Levels in the Methodological Individualism-Holism Debate 

      Zahle, Julie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      It is currently common to conceive of the classic methodological individualism–holism debate in level terms. Accordingly, the dispute is taken to concern the proper level of explanations in the social sciences. In this ...
    • Objective Data Sets in Qualitative Research 

      Zahle, Julie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Qualitative researchers sometimes talk about objectivity in relation to qualitative data sets. In this paper, I defend a reconstructed notion of objective qualitative data sets that may serve as a useful and reachable ...
    • Reactivity and Good Data in Qualitative Data Collection 

      Zahle, Julie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Reactivity in qualitative data collection occurs when a researcher generates data about a situation with reactivity, that is, a situation in which the ongoing research affects the research participants such that they, say, ...