New directions in quantitative comparative sociology
By: edited by Wil Arts and Loek Halman.
Contributors: Arts, Wilhelmus Antonius, 1946-; Halman, Loek.
Series: International studies in sociology and social anthropology,; v. 72
Publisher: Brill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Mathematical sociology; Sociology -- Comparative method
Description: The contributions to this book regard nations or countries as contextual units of analysis and treat them as variables. Theoretical explanations are presented of how social phenomena are systematically related to characteristics of the nation states and these explanations are tested empirically using the qualitative tools of mainstream sociology.

The chapters in this book can be useful to a broad audience and a range of social scientists who are interested in the understanding of contemporary social phenomena that are no longer limited to national borders but that are transnational or of a global order.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.