Comparative Research across Cultures and Nations

Inbunden, Engelska, 1968

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Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION. A programme for the advancement of comparative social science research: the action of the International Social Science Council -- PART I: Cross-cultural comparisons -- CHAPTER I. The logic of cross-cultural analysis: why exceptions? -- CHAPTER II. Computer summarization of the coded cross-cultural literature -- PART II: Comparative histories of processes of development -- CHAPTER III. Concepts in comparative historical analysis -- CHAPTER IV. Comparative analysis of processes of modernization -- CHAPTER V. Political systems and political development -- CHAPTER VI. Historians and other social scientists: the comparative analysis of nation-building in Western societies -- CHAPTER VII. Modern nations and the study of political modernization -- CHAPTER VIII. The empirical and statistical basis for comparative analyses of historical change -- PART III: Quantitative approaches to cross-national comparisons -- CHAPTER IX. Research possibilities using aggregate political and social data -- CHAPTER X. Aggregate comparisons: problems and prospects of quantitative analysis based on national accounts -- CHAPTER XI. Aggregate comparisons: the validity and reliability of economic data -- CHAPTER XII. The cross-cultural use of sample surveys: problems of comparability -- CHAPTER XIII. Survey materials collected in the developing countries: obstacles to comparisons