Methodological issues in comparative social science
By: editors: Lars Mjøset ... [et al.].
Contributors: Mjøset, Lars.
Series: Comparative social research -- v. 16
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Greenwich, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Sociology -- Research -- Methodology; Sociology -- Comparative method; Social sciences -- Comparative method
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Fredrik Engelstadt and Lars Mjøset; title: Current issues in comparative macrosociology : a debate on methodological issues / John H. Goldthorpe; title: Turning the tables : how case-oriented research challenges variable-oriented research / Charles C. Ragin; title: Means and ends of comparison in macrosociology / Charles Tilly; title: Comparing historical sequences : a powerful tool for causal analysis / Dietrich Rueschenmeyer and John D. Stephens; title: Stories, observations, systems, theories / Henry Teune; title: On the concept of turning point / Andrew Abbott; title: Methodological issues in comparative macrosociology / Jack A. Goldstone; title: A response to the commentaries / John H. Goldthorpe; title: Reduction of complexity for a small-n analysis : a stepwise multi-methodological approach / Dirk Berg-Schlosser and Gisèle De Meur; title: Measurement of education in comparative research / Michael Braun and Walter Müller; title: Comparative political economy of life courses / Karl Ulrich Mayer; title: Making institutions dynamic in cross-national research : time-space distancing in explaining unemployment / Thomas Janoski, Christa McGill, and Vanessa Tinsley.