Cross-national research in sociology

Author(s)

• Kohn, Melvin L.
• American Sociological Association. Meeting

Bibliographic Information

Cross-national research in sociology

editor, Melvin L. Kohn

（American Sociological Association presidential series）

Sage Publications, c1989

• : hard
• : pbk.

Note

Selected papers from the 1987 Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, held in Chicago, Ill.

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The development of cross-national research attempts to a much-needed global perspective on sociological research. Its adherents overcome national, cultural, logistic and linguistic barriers in the attempt to provide truly comparative information on the human condition. This volume, stemming from the plenary sessions of the 1987 American Sociological Association annual meeting and edited by past president Melvin Kohn, presents the cutting edge of cross-national research. Its distinguished contributors from nine countries describe the theoretical possibilities and limits of this kind of endeavour, consider the difficulties of its implementation, and present a range of studies ranging from two-nation comparisons to truly global ones, that are exemplars of this style of research. For sociologists and others doing comparative social research, this is a crucial sourcebook and an important tool for training students.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES IN CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH Verificational Functions of Comparative Social Studies and the Present State and Problems of Theory in Sociology - Stefan Nowak New Directions in Comparative Research - Charles Ragin Cross-national Research as an Analytic Strategy - Melvin L Kohn PART TWO: MAX WEBER'S ENDURING PERTINENCE FOR CROSS-NATIONAL RESEARCH Legitimate Domination in Comparative-historical Perspective - Wlodzimierz Wesolowski The Case of Legal Domination Max Weber and the Modernization of China and Japan - Ken'ichi Tominaga PART THREE: NATION AS CONTEXT: PRIMARY ANALYSES Effects of Status-inconsistency on the Intellective Process in the United States, Japan, and Poland - Kazimierz M Slomczynski Transition from School to Work in the German Democratic Republic and the Soviet Union - Artur Meier Universals and Particularities of Socialist Educational Systems Class Structure and Class Formation - Erik Olin Wright, Carolyn Howe and Donmoon Cho A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Sweden Class Mobility During the Working Life - Karl Ulrich Mayer et al A Cross-national Comparison between Germany and Norway PART FOUR: NATION AS CONTEXT: SECONDARY ANALYSES Cross-national Research and the Analysis of Educational Systems - Margaret S Archer Alternatives in the Health Area - Magdalena Sokolowska and Andrzej Rychard Poland in Comparative Perspective Ethnicity, Immigration, and Cultural Pluralism - T K Oommen India and the United States of America PART FIVE: NATION AS CONTEXT: MULTI-NATIONAL ANALYSES The Professional-Proletarian Bind - Aaron Antonovsky Doctors' Strikes in Western Societies Action and Reaction - Janet Saltzman Chafetz and Anthony Gary Dworkin An Integrated, Comparative Perspective on Feminist and Antifeminist Movements PART SIX: NATION AS `UNIT OF ANALYSIS' AND TRANS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS The Other Working Class - Bryan R Roberts Uncommitted Labor in Britain, Spain, and Mexico Educational and Occupational Attainment in 21 Countries - Donald J Treiman and Kam-Bor Yip Conceptions of Christendom - John W Meyer Notes on the Distinctiveness of the West

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA07144920
• ISBN:
  • 0803934572
  • 0803934580
• LCCN: 88029529
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Newbury Park, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: 424 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HM48
  • DC19 : 301/.072
  • NDC8 : 361.7
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Sociology -- Research -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Comparative method -- Congresses
  • LCSH : Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA06906649