Comparative methods in the social sciences / edited by Alan Sica.
"Comparative research methods are central to sociology and its associated disciplines. This four-volume set brings together 77 articles and book chapters from key sources, spanning the history of comparative analysis in the social sciences, from ancient to modern works. The selections cover not...
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London ; Thousand Oaks :
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2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Volume One. Foundations and Early Exemplars
- The Politics / Aristotle
- Histories: The Rise of the Roman Empire / Polybius
- The Muqaddimah / Ibn Khaldun
- Method for the Easy Comprehension of History / Jean Bodin
- Comparative Political Analysis in Montesquieu and Tocqueville / Melvin Richter
- The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte / Auguste Comte
- System of Logic / John Stuart Mill
- On the Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions: Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent / Edward B Tylor
- The Limitations of the Comparative Method in Anthropology / Franz Boas
- Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples: An Essay in Correlation / L T Hobhouse, G C Wheeler and M Ginsberg
- Comparative Analysis of Political Ideologies: A Preliminary Statement / Daniel Lerner, I Pool and H D Lasswell
- The Comparative Method in Anthropology / A R Radcliffe-Brown
- Volume Two. The Logic of Comparative Methods
- Macrocomparative Research Methods / Kenneth A Bollen, Barbara Entwisle and Arthur S Anderson
- Informing Generality and Explaining Uniqueness: The Place of Case Studies in Comparative Research / York Bradshaw and Michael Wallace
- Historical Explanation and Comparative Method: Towards a Theory of the History of Society / A A van den Braembussche
- Causal Inference and Comparative Methods / E Gene DeFelice
- Strategies in Comparative Sociology / Mattei Dogan
- Comparative Cross-National Methodology / Joseph W Elder
- On the Scope and Methods of Cross-Cultural Research / N Frijda and G Jahoda
- Current Issues in Comparative Macrosociology: A Debate on Methodological Issues / J H Goldthorpe
- How Comparative Is Comparative Research? / Roger Jowell
- Making Comparative Research Cumulative / Robert M Marsh
- Galton's Problem: The Logic of Cross-Cultural Research / Raoull Naroll
- Theory and Method in Comparative Research: Two Strategies / Charles Ragin and David Zaret
- Toward Comparative Historiography / Fritz Redlich
- The Development of Cross-National Comparative Research: A Review of Current Problems and Possibilities / Stein Rokkan
- The Comparative Method in Social Research / E A Suchman
- Measurement in Comparative Research / Henry Teune
- The Cross-Cultural Method / J W M Whiting
- Volume Three. Data (Sources and Problems) and Contemporary Exemplars
- Part One. Data Sources and Problems
- Concepts, Context and Discourse in a Comparative Case Study / Emma Carmel
- Thickening Thin Concepts and Theories: Combining Large and Small in Comparative Politics / M Coppedge
- Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study / D Dion
- Europe through the Looking-Glass: Comparative and Multi-Level Perspectives / Bernhard Ebbinghaus
- The Quality and Quantity of Data for Cross-Cultural Studies / Carol R Ember
- Data Problems in Quantitative Comparative Analysis / Michael C Hudson
- Causal Inference in Historical Institutional Analysis: A Specification of Periodization Strategies / E S Lieberman
- Comparative Field Studies: Methodological Issues and Future Possibilities / Robert L Munroe and Ruth H Munroe
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis and a Hermeneutic Approach to Interview Data / Kati Rentala and Eeva Hellstrom
- Comparative Research, Experimental Design and the Comparative Method / H Teune
- Part Two. Contemporary Exemplars in Sociology and Political Science
- Comparative Political Systems / Gabriel A Almond
- A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics / David E Apter
- The Comparative Study of Organizations / Peter Blau
- Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research / David Collier and S Levitsky
- The Comparative and Historical Study of Revolutions / Jack A Goldstone
- The Comparative Study of National Societies / Terry K Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein
- The Role of General Theory in Comparative-Historical Sociology / E Kiser and Michael Hechter
- Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method / Arend Lijphart
- The Comparative Method in Political Studies / Leslie Lipson
- Comparative Social Mobility / Judah Matras
- Comparative Politics: A Half-Century Appraisal / Sigmund Neumann
- Comparative Sociology and the Comparative Method / Charles C Ragin
- Comparing Historical Sequences / A Powerful Tool for Causal Analysis - Dietrich Rueschemeyer and J D Stephens
- The Uses of Comparative History in Macrosocial Inquiry / Theda Skocpol and Margaret Somers
- Method and Theory in Comparative Urban Studies / David A Smith
- Means and Ends of Comparison in Macrosociology / Charles Tilly
- Part Three. Contemporary Exemplars in Anthropology and Education
- The Comparative Method of Anthropology / Kenneth E Bock
- Measurement of Education in Comparative Research / Michael Braun and Walter Muller
- Case Study Research Methods and Comparative Education / Michael Crossley and Graham Vulliamy
- Social Anthropology and the Method of Controlled Comparison / Fred Eggan
- The Comparative Method in Anthropological Perspective / E A Hammel
- Cross-National Studies and the Analysis of Comparative Qualitative Research / Gerald LeTendre
- Comparative Education: The Social Construction of the Modern World System / Francisco O Ramirez and John W Meyer
- Research Strategies in Comparative Education / V D Rust et al
- On Comparative Methods in Social-Cultural Anthropology and in Linguistics / Gopala Sarana
- Volume Four. Qualitative and Quantitative Research: Problems and Prospects
- Part One. Qualitative Methods
- Where to Begin? A Survey of Five Approaches to Selecting Independent Variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis / Edwin Amenta and J D Poulsen
- Insights and Pitfalls: Bias in Qualitative Research / David Collier and James Mahoney Selection
- Narrative as Data: Study of Historical Events / Roberto Franzosi Linguistic and Statistical Tools for the Qualitative
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Analytical Induction / A M Hicks
- Nominal, Ordinal and Narrative Appraisal in Macrocausal Analysis / James Mahoney
- Canons of Research Design in Qualitative Analysis / Gerardo L Munck
- The Logic of Qualitative Comparative Analysis / Charles C Ragin
- Odious Comparisons: Incommensurability, the Case Study and 'small N's' in Sociology / George Steinmetz
- Part Two. QUANTITATIVE METHODSNew Directions in Quantitative Comparative Sociology(Wil Arts and Loek Halman)
- Reduction of Complexity for a Small-N Analysis / D Berg-Schlosser and G De Meur
- The Methodology of Necessary Conditions / Bear F Braumoeller and Gary Goertz
- The Quantitative Study of National Character: Interchronological and International Perspectives / Hayashi Chicko
- Log-Linear Models in Comparative Research: A Paradigm Lost? / Jos Dessens, Wim Jansen and Kristen Ringdal
- Evidence and Inference in the Comparative Case Study / Douglas Dion
- Quantitative Cross-National Analysis as a Research Tool in the Sociology of Developing Countries: A Critical Examination / Mark Herkenrath
- Small N's and Big Conclusions: An Examination of the Reasoning in Comparative Studies Based on a Small Number of Cases / Stanley Lieberson
- Strategies of Causal Inference in a Small-N Analysis / James Mahoney.