Comparative methodology : theory and practice in international social research
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Comparative methodology : theory and practice in international social research
（Sage studies in international sociology, 40）
Sage Publications, 1990
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The book addresses the methodological problems raised by international comparative social science research. As research is increasingly conducted on a transnational basis, more scholars are faced with data rendered incompatible by differing cultural and disciplinary norms. In this volume a team of distinguished contributors from 10 countries on three continents addresses different aspects of the practice, past experience and future of comparative research. This volume has been specially prepared for the 1990 World Congress of Sociology.
Table of Contents
- The history of comparative methodology, Erwin Scheuch
- comparing nations, - lessons learned, Henry Teune
- socio-legal concepts and their comparisons, Vincenzo Ferrari
- reasons of the heart - comparing collective subjectivity and moral choices in the sixties student movement, Daniel Bertaux
- the theoretical implications of comparative research, Johan Galtung
- comparing semi-corruptions of parliamentarians outside pecuniary interests in Britain and Australia, Eva Etzioni-Halevy
- snowball sampling and cross-classification analysis in the study of hidden populations - joining ascending and descending methodologies, Karl van Meter
- the use of time series in comparisons, Rudolph Andorka
- data archives as an instrument for comparative research, Jan Erik-Lane
- comparative content analysis - corporation biographies and mobility modes in Britain and United States, Ralph Turner
- social movements and paradigm crisis - methodology and theory in a post-structuralist world - a Latin-American perspective, Fernando Calderon et al.
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