Comparative Methods in Sociology: Essays on Trends and Applications

The essays in this volume aim to improve comparative research and create more satisfactory explanations or theories. It identifies and assesses methodological strategies, explicates and refines logics of procedure, presents new research models, and defines methodological criteria for relating theories and conceptual frameworks to comparative studies.

Format: Hardback
Length: 482 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: University of California Press

The essays in this volume are dedicated to assisting social scientists in conducting more effective comparative research, thereby enhancing our chances of developing more satisfactory explanations or theories. These overarching goals are pursued throughout the book through various approaches: (1) by identifying and evaluating the methodological strategies employed by renowned comparativists from both the past and present; (2) by elucidating and refining the logics of procedure that are fundamental to many types of comparative research; (3) by presenting novel research models that connect or bridge previously separate lines of comparative inquiry; and (4) by defining methodological criteria that can facilitate the fruitful relationship between theories and conceptual frameworks and their qualification through comparative studies. Various sections of specific essays address specific problems such as comparability, causal inference, conceptualization, measurement, and sampling.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates the University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Weight: 862g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520358362